Got Weeds?

Meet my most recently acquired enemy...SPURGE
weed.(Bear with me and read on, because this isn't a horticulture post/it's
spiritual). Because I don't routinely wear my glasses and walk around and look at the grass, this weed has went rampant in my yard! (Carl just kept mowing over it). Without my glasses, our yard is a perfect carpet of green...one day I wore my glasses and realized that SPURGE had taken over our yard! All week, we've been pulling the Spurge out of the lawn. It's too hot right now for the Weed-B-Gone, so we're pulling instead. The SPURGE is not invasive...it doesn't get into the grass roots themselves like crabgrass or nutsedge, but it spreads out 2-3ft in
diameter and smothers the grass from the top. It looks harmless but can destroy
a lawn. So as I've been pulling weeds, I've been PONDERING...in comparison,
weeds are much like sin and discouragement in our lives. It makes me really mad
when I pull a weed and don't get the root...why is that? Because if you don't
get the root, you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the weed will return.
Your hard work of digging it out is fruitless. If weeds make me so angry, why is
it that I let sin and discouragement in my life keep festering? Why can't I deal
with the root? And kill it/stop it once and for all? What exactly is the ROOT
that makes me eat a whole tub of cool whip in one sitting? If I could figure
that out, deal with it, pluck it out, then I'd be rid of that burden of lack of
self control. Why do I beat myself up about my parenting skills and lack of
communication with my mate? Is the root really because of a fear? Perhaps a fear
of loss or failure or critique?An unintentional or subconscious desire to keep
others at emotional bay in case they leave or reject me? I have a lot of
issues that I need to deal with from the root up. I just keep pulling the weed
off the top of the grass..off the surface of my life,because it's easier, but it keeps resurfacing, trying to choke out my spirit..the grass. So I'm pondering my weeds today and I'm going to make an honest effort to start pulling the roots from now on...it will take more effort in the beginning, but I think result will be a beautiful weed free life. Got weeds?