Purging into Spring...

As mentioned before, spring is here, soon to be summer. I am sure those hot days will slip in there before we know it. To those of you who are still experiencing cold weather, I am sorry to sound so enthusiastic about our weather here. But for me, seeing the tree’s back to life and the bounty of plants we are growing is witness to God’s blessings.
Several weeks ago we started some plants, in reality; it was a huge mess within the confines of our home, turned into beauty just a few weeks later on the outside. Seeing new life come into our landscape is addicting, and planning just where to put all these plants has been a lot of fun as well.
Today the sun is out in full force, and I am sure the temperatures are tethering in the 80’s somewhere, dangerously close to the 90’s. One can not help but want to be out in the sunshine and watch as almost hour by hour, the plants are growing and sprouting up out of the ground. Seeing how determined the plants are to grow and thrive, gives me the inspiration to do the same, as silly as that may seem that one would get inspiration from foliage it really does offer support, at least to me.
Over the last several years we have worked each spring and summer to make this piece of land that was nothing more than rolling hills of weed patches into something more ascetically pleasing to the eye. In March of 2001 we officially moved onto this land. That first year was spent more or less indoors. The years following have been spent working on the outside part. We are nowhere near complete with any of it, but it does look better than it did. Our goals are still far away, but as they say, all good things come to those who wait.
One of the goals this spring is to purge. You see, by ridding our lives of clutter, we become better people and help others in the process. One the main reasons that many people need to purge is that they have more than they really need, and in the process their willingness to purge may help someone else out. Our homes may not be the only space that many of us need to purge. The fact is, many of us are carrying around excess baggage in our personal lives that we need to learn to purge in order to become better people.
So today I challenge each person who reads this blog to purge some of those pent up feelings you have, and turn them into something more worthwhile. If you have areas of your life that need improving on, work on it, if you are holding things inside, get them out, tell the person you are holding things against what it is that bothers you, and work on improving those feelings even if the person you hold things against does not see things your way. But by never purging those true feelings to someone, they will never know why you stand where you stand and there will always be a riff. Lets not only spring clean our houses we live in but our hearts and souls as well.