One thing I had not counted on when starting my herb garden
round the back of the house was how much work dealing with autumn leaves would
be. The oak tree in my neighbour’s yard
has made an awful mess of leaves and with all the tyres, slabs and stones it is
really difficult to clean up.
I can’t leave the leaves lying round either as I’m scared it
may attract gogo’s to my herbs.
Hopefully it will just be another week or two until the bulk of the
leaves are gone, then I can get stuck into the herb garden and work on that
over winter as the gardening magazines say that herbs quite like the cold.
The amazing thing about autumn and winter is that they expose
the raw stumps of the trees which can look very stark and bare. In our spiritual journey we face these
seasons too when it seems that all life has been stripped from our bones and we
are laid bare before God.
It is at these times that the stark truth of our relationship
with God is exposed and tested. Although
they are tough times, they are necessary and valuable. If we will allow these times to do the work
they need to we will learn the true essence of our faith. Once proven we can look forward to the joy of
fresh buds in spring.
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