Garden Lessons

I love working in my garden.  It’s mid-winter in Southern California and this is the time of year we prune back our roses and other plants.  In our front garden some of the plants had gotten so big and grown so close together, that when the branches were pruned back we were surprised to find other small plants underneath!  We’d forgotten they were there and it was an unexpected gift to find them there!

On the street side of the garden, when we pruned the salvias back we found another surprise: a little yellow ball with a happy face on it 🙂  That made us smile.

When our lives are “pruned” by God, the Master Gardener, we usually don’t like it.  It can be painful and hard to deal with when things are removed.  But if we look more closely we just  might find some unexpected surprises or something small that’s now exposed to God’s light, allowing it to grow.

Who knows – you might even find a happy face ball – or a happier face than you’d thought possible.