pruning with love...

I've been spending the cool hours

of the morning out in my roses.

I'm ashamed to say
that it is the first time this year
I've been out to work with them.
Needless to say they needed a lot of love...


I can't help but think
of life applications
when gardening.

pruning:to cut off or cut out,
as useless parts

all these dead and diseased branches



and this wild growth
that wants to go back to the old rose


I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes it so that it will be even more fruitful. John 15:2


God is soo patient to prune us,
to cut out the dead, diseased and wild stuff.
the stuff that does not bear fruit
Why do we resist it so?

I try to hang on to the hurts,
the what-if's,
the issues of the day.


Everyday is a new opportunity of grace,
to be pruned by His loving hand.

Now, isn't that better?

Now, being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Phil 1:6