Pruning is an annual gardening task for some plants. Cutting away the old and dead, to encourage growth in what remains strong.
I am so thankful that Jesus loves gardening as much as I do.
Mentally, I call the little lessons Jesus reminds me of while doing yardwork the “Garden Gospel”.
His truth is all around us, and plays out constantly in our daily lives on this little Homestead.
It’s essentially beauty via partial death. But boy oh boy are the results of pruning worth it. What remains is stronger and more fruitful, and bears more beauty.
A year ago I did some of the hardest pruning of my life thus far in Tennessee. It was horribly sad, completely necessary, and the results have been nothing short of healthy and life-bringing. I pray to always have the courage to lovingly hold the shears and remove what is clearly dead, in the name of bringing forth more strength, beauty, and life. It is worth it.
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. John 15:2-6
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