Today was a grass cutting day. There are reasons we sweat our way through that task each week. Keeping up appearances is important after all we don't want weeds and grass growing up so high that its unsightly to look at our yards. This time of year it's a great way to dispense of leaf raking. Cutting the leaves into mulch is much easier that raking and bagging them. Our memory gets the treat of remembering the smell of freshly mowed grass from special times in our lives. Smelling newly mowed grass brings back to mind a simpler time in life when we could spend an hour looking for a four-leaf clover. There's something special about the way freshly mowed grass smells when you're lying in it looking at the sky and clouds. Mowing the grass was a way to make a couple of bucks in the summertime to go to the movies with plenty left for popcorn, Coke and treats. Grass cutting today was accompanied by an Ipod and headphones.
Cutting the grass does other beneficial things for the grass. By occasionally mowing off the top third of the grass the roots of the grass grow deeper, the grass gets thicker and its better able to withstand the effects of drought. Perhaps that is what God does on occasion to deepen our roots. A little pruning is what we need to make our roots grow deeper and to help us withstand the lack of good things in our lives. Just about the time we begin to think a little too highly of ourselves God cuts us back a little. As a result we remember the roots by which we are sustained. When we get too tall and too weedy in our neighborhood, God takes a little off the top and leaves us smelling fresh and clean. Jesus draws a similar comparison in John 15; "I am the real vine; my Father is the vine dresser. He removes any of the branches which are not bearing fruit and He prunes every branch that does bear fruit to increase its yield." God knows that everyone needs a little pruning to restore its dependence on the Vine and to bear bigger and better fruit. Seems to work for grass as well...
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