Photo Credit - Paul Holley
My wife is a master gardener. There is nothing she cannot do when it comes to flowers, plants or trees. She studies it, she knows it, she lives it. So, why is it that when I see her snipping away perfectly good looking stems from her rose bushes I begin to object? She’s the expert, I don’t know jack, but it just does not seem right to me.
“You have to trim away the parts that keep the bush from reaching its full potential”, she tells me and I know that she is right. Left to its own the rose bush would become a tangled and unorganized mess instead of the long stemmed beautiful creation that we all love to admire. She has to cut away the dead stems and blooms, the stems or blooms that look sick or dying, and even some healthy stems or blooms that might look good, but are not the best.
Avoiding a Tangled Mess
If your life is the rose bush then that makes you the master gardener. The need for pruning is constant and that job falls to you. If you want to reach your full potential then you need to take on the intentional practice of pruning away the parts of your life that are holding you back.
Dr. Henry Cloud in his book, “Necessary Endings” says that, “growth depends on getting rid of the unwanted or the superfluous”. In my life, just like that of the rose bush I need to Continue Reading…
