Are you root bound?
About a week ago I was at the home of a lady who was recently in the hospital for about a week. She can't get around well, so she asked me to throw out a plant for her. This plant had not been watered in some time. I knew that if I just watered it all would be well. I shared my opinion about the plant with her. ( I probably should not have done that, being she didn't ask for my opinion) she told me to take the plant home.
I took the plant home, watered it, put it in just the right amount of sun, and left it alone. This morning I decided I would finally get around to repotting the plant. When I dumped the plant out of the pot it was in I noticed it was incredibly root bound. It's roots were so intertwined & stuck in a pot much to small for it. I gently pulled it apart, separated it, pruned it, & replanted it in three different vessels, allowing it room to regain it's original health, & grow.
As I was taking care of this plant I thought about how I was so very root bound, stuck in a small pot, all tangled up, no room to grow. -Again, please don't try to figure out the way my mind works.- I was showed a better way. There was absolutely no reason for me to be a tangled up mess. Thoughts & actions all over the place. My mind would always race, even when I was still. I always had to be busy, focusing, no, obsessing over everything. "will there be enough gas to make it to work, did I remember to let the dog out, did I give the kids lunch money.......... ". None of these things need more then a moments thought, not all days thoughts. None of the things I chose to obsessive about are life threatening, so really, how important is it? Why does it occupy so much of my thought? Because I would rather focus on all kinds of nonsense instead of looking at the BIG stuff, the bound up roots, the lack of water, pruning, SON shine.
I oh so gently, with the help of some wonderful friends, began to untangle my roots, sort them out, figured out where they came from, & where they go, if I still needed them, or did they need to be pruned?
The root that leads to self doubt had to be pruned, as well as the root that leads to jealousy, & resentments had to go too. Several other bitter roots had to go.
The roots that lead to self love, that could stay, I put that piece of my plant in a new vessel, so it could grow bigger, stronger. Love of others could stay too. As well as serenity (yup that was all the way in the center of the root ball, slowly being strangled to death.) joy was in there too, almost dead from all the other roots, that got a pot of it's own. I needed this piece to grow huge. There were other beautiful, tiny roots that needed a chance to grow as well.
We all deserve the opportunity to untangle our roots. The opportunity to get rid of stuff that is no longer working for us. We need to nourish the good, water it, give it room to grow. I could not imagine living in a tangled up mess ever again. I found serenity, I CAN NOT live without it.
---- I had written this yesterday, and for some reason I didn't post it, I now know why. Last night I allowed a change in my "norm" to mess up my peace & serenity. Time to re adjust my thoughts, look at the root of why I allowed myself to be thrown off last night.----
Philippians 1:9-11
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.
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