We recently redid the landscaping along our front walkway.  Before we could make it beautiful, we had to remove two, large, old overgrown shrubs.  They partially blocked the front of our entryway.  We have been trying to simplify some of our landscaping so we don’t have so much trimming to do, so these shrub needed to go.

We asked three of our grandkids to come over and help us remove the shrubs.  They are very hard workers.  It was a lot of work cutting back all of the old large branches – filling the back of our pickup to overflowing.  But gradually we got down to stumps.  We discovered that the “one” rhododendron was actually three separate stumps.

The roots of the rhodies, as we call them in Oregon, we’re a mesh of thousands of tiny roots going everywhere close to the surface, with only 2-3 bigger roots.  The feather leaf was another story!  It had a massive root system like a trunk going down into the ground about a foot and large roots coming off in every direction.  Every time we thought we had the last root, we found one more.  And it seemed it would never end. But finally the last one was gone, and we were able to proceed with our new landscape plan seen here.

Sin can be like those two root systems.  We may have a lot of little things that need to be confessed and taken to the Lord for cleansing.  Or we may have let certain sins take such a hold In our lives that those roots of sin have grown very strong a deep and are extremely hard to get rid of – but it can be done.  With consistent hard work and perseverance, Satan and our sins habits can be defeated.  Never give up!!  The results will be beautiful.

Blessings,

Linnea