GARDENING
Spring is coming right now in the part of Sweden where I live. This means of lot of work both outside in the garden and inside with potted plants. Everywhere there is a need for new soil that helps the plants to survive and grow.
To me, it is a kind of meditation to take care of the garden waste from the last season and to give room for this season. When I am working on, two things come across my mind. The first is something that the apostle Paul says, when he uses the image of plants talking about Christian cooperation. We can do a lot of things for one another just like when we are working with the bushes and the plants, but it is God that brings the life. In that sense we are only servants, not more but not less either.
And that brings another thought in my meditation.
Just like my tending to the bushes and the potted plants, I need to look inside my heart to sort out things that I can leave behind. What do I need forgiveness or reconciliation for and what do I just have to let go. And further on, to discern Gods future, for me and the service that is my call in life now.
I would like to encourage you too: give a little time this spring to discern how your way forward looks like.
— Hillevi Bergvall