Be Still And Know

Matthew 13:29-30 NLT  “No,” he replied, “you’ll uproot the wheat if you do. Let both grow together until the harvest. Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the barn.” Last autumn and winter, Jayne and I couldn’t get out into the Oratory garden, because of the bad weather. We had extended a flower border over the summer and we knew that the weeds would fight back. When the good weather returned in March, our fears were confirmed.   Weeding was not simply a matter of digging and lifting unwelcome grasses. I often had to lift a whole plant in order to extricate it from the weeds, which seemed to establish themselves in the very heart, making it difficult not to destroy the plant with the weed. The clearing work took three weeks, and I considered what I might learn from it.   The reflection proved helpful. Too often I look to God to change my behaviours and habits, aspects of my life that I feel control me. How lovely if a simple praye