So we’ve had a so many questions about what this year is looking like for us including “What’s life like constantly living with 5 other people?”.
This blog will be addressing what the Lord has revealed to me while pulling weeds at our mission house in Lesotho ???? regarding just that.
A lot of times you don’t really notice that you have weeds in your garden until you zoom out and change your perspective and start paying attention and caring for it.
When you start taking a closer look, you realize how many weeds are actually in your garden. Then when you start looking even closer at your weeds, (let’s call them baggage/issues) you might devise a plan to start pulling some of those weeds out. (If you do, you’ve made the right choice!)
You might find that some of your weeds have a short root system and are easy to pull out. While other weeds might have deep roots (like pride and anger) and will take more time and energy tending to than the others; these will need to be continually checked on.
The great thing about living in community that I’ve learned is that you have brothers and sisters who can help with your garden and keep you accountable to make sure these weeds don’t come back up. And if they do, they will be there for you to help. Then you spread weed-kill and lay a bed liner down to help with new weeds. Your community will help you so new weeds don’t have time to even sprout up (feedback/loving you enough to call you to look more like Jesus) and if they do, they’ll be standing there with a bottle of round-up waiting to squash it.
A little bonus for you, also when living in community they can take a look at your garden and show you that this beautiful “flower” you’ve been watering and giving life to is actually a weed disguised as a flower. But when there are actual flowers or fruits from your garden, your community is there to share and enjoy them with you too.
