While pulling weeds in my strawberry patch today, I was yet again reminded that it was my Mother who taught me to be able to see the beautiful flowers in and amongst the weeds. When I was a child, like many youngsters growing up, one of the chores I would be given to do was to pull the weeds in the flower, rock and/or food gardens. I hated this chore. Didn’t we all?!?! I learned to recognize weeds and I learned that one can fall on their butt if they pull too hard on a well established weed. I also learned how to identify the plants we wanted to thrive for our own purposes.
As a young adult I got away from having any type of garden for quite some time. I just could not bear the idea of pulling weeds. Whenever I’d go over to my mom’s house she would point out some of the beautiful flowers that were blooming in her gardens. I saw the flowers and appreciated them, but that was quickly overruled by the way I noticed the weeds and thought, ugh, those darn weeds. If only someone would pull all those weeds the garden would be so much more beautiful and one could really see the flowers. But my Mother saw the flowers. She noticed the beauty that was growing around her.
Before the Holistic Horse Care Cooperative was ever formed, I was sitting and discussing my vision of the Holistic Horse Affair with an animal communicator whose advice I valued while desiring to do something that the horses would approve of, she said to me, seemingly out of the blue, ‘Robin, you are in the weeds.’ I sat back and wondered what she meant. Today, I can know that what she meant is that I was getting all bound up with details and concerns without seeing the flowers and food. I was surrounding myself with people who were not feeding me or the vision. I was participating in activities that did not serve the highest good. It was time to pull those weeds and allow the flowers to show.
Of course, pulling the weeds means that one must have good discernment. The garden can still thrive without being ‘perfect’ and completely weed free. Plus, one can be pleasantly surprised when one discovers that what was thought to be a weed is actually a superfood. The ‘weed’ is perfectly set up for the environment in which it is growing and requires little nurturing from the gardener. What a gift that nature provides us!
In these times of GMOs, chemtrails, inundation with emfs, politics that are truly poly ticks, distractions that are not for the highest good of the planet, over vaccination of our children and pets, toxicity in vaccines, consumerism, oh the list could go on and on…. The weeds can readily crowd out the flowers and the good organic food. It’s important to remember to see the flowers and the good organic food. Remember to seek what your soul really desires and wishes to serve.
Balance is what we need. Balance derived from pulling the weeds as they seek to take over what it is that we desire to grow and nurture. Balance derived from not feeling that it is up to me to get all those weeds pulled so that the garden can appear perfect. Balance from recognizing where a weed might actually be a superfood if controlled and put to good use when needed – such as the technology in our smartphones and computers, such as conscious vaccination.
Through the years, as I began the process of gardening for both beauty and food, I’ve attempted laying plastic week barrier, different mulches, cardboard, newspaper, etc… etc….so that I could have the picture perfect garden without any weeds. It took many years for me to be OK with the fact that in gardening I will have weeds. I actually take some pleasure in pulling the weeds to allow the good plants to thrive. I also take pleasure in allowing some of the ‘weeds’ that are superfoods to have a space in my garden. I just pull them to control them and bless them for their benefits.
I don’t turn my back on the weeds and ignore them so that they may run rampant over me and my strawberries or other plants, I notice, I call them what they are, and I do what I can to invoke right relationship. Just as I do with the ‘weeds’ that I see in the culture. I also make sure that I notice the flowers and the beauty and that I nurture them so that they may thrive in spite of the weeds.
Time to get busy discerning the weeds from the good organic food and the beautiful fragrant flowers that fill our world. Spend time doing those things that are for your highest good and control the weeds that can serve you when put to good use rather than allowed to take over.
Blessings on the journey.