Patience

It's morning. The crickets and frogs are still chirping and the crows are cawling to each other and sweet songbirds are beginning to sing. The warm glow of dawn is reaching over the horizon. I love dawn. With all of natures music it is still calm and quiet somehow, I can hear myself think. 

I am observing my garden. One of them. I have planted a garden surrounding our pool. The pool has an eye sore of a chain link fence surrounding it and it was barren of any plant life other than weeds. I have weeded sprayed trimmed and tended to prepare the ground. I layed mulch around the perimeter to help choke out some of the weeds so what I plant will have a chance to live before the weeds steal its earth and nutrients. 

At the beginning of the season I planted an evergreen clematis that will engulf the fence and help to camouflage it. I had to special order the tiny plants online and have them sent to me. They arrived about 4" tall. I wondered how many would survive. I planted 7, fertilized, watered and waited and waited and waited. New leaves began to emerge so I knew they were taking to their new home. It gave me hope they had a chance. It took all summer watching them slowly wind their way through the chain link fence but now they are budding and blooming. 

We just got the pool opened this year after dredging it and replacing the liner. It's our first time with a pool so we have been learning all sorts of things. One thing after living with the pool I realized I wanted was more privacy. We have a large flat plot and the pool, only had the chain link fence around it. I had some Cana Lilly's that were established and eventually decided to surround the pool exterior with them. They are beginning to bud and grow. 

I also put some elephant ears and palm trees. Very tropical. Eventually the Lily's will be this big. 

Which leads me to the lesson god is teaching me this morning. As I look out over what I have planted and see it starting to take root and grow, it makes me happy. But I know it has so far to grow. I see how I want it to grow, a vision into the future of what it will become. That will take time and a few years to fully  reach where I intend for it to be. 

So I look at us, as plants in Gods garden. He sees where He wants us to be, what He wants us to become. He 'plants' us in certain situations and then waits, and waits and waits and watches. How will we grow. Will we take root? Will we flourish? Will we get choked out by weeds around us? That's something that takes time to tell, sometimes years. Only time will tell...

But he is tending his garden he will prune and weed around us if we ask him too. We have to trust he sees the bigger picture and is making us into something bigger stronger and more beautiful than we realize with our limited scope of view. We are just one plant in his vast garden, but each plant adds its unique beauty to the garden.