This morning, I dug up every last dandelion in the back yard – and left all the wild violets behind.
Does anyone else have a special place in their heart for flowering weeds? I once dug up many violets in the yard and lined the borders of my flowerbeds – that’s how much I love them 🙂
I always think of this verse when I look at my lawn, dotted with flowering weeds:
Luke 12:27-29 “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith!
This verse inspired me to look up more gardening verses… so I’m passing them along! Amazing how many there are, as gardening is such a perfect metaphor for so many spiritual concepts.
3 responses to “Flowering Weeds and Gardening Verses”
I love violets, too. I’m doing the same with my yard, killing the dandelions and keeping the violets.
Um … also … there’s something wrong with the page. See?
http://www.glamdring.org/wp/archives/2007/05/01/flowering-weeds-and-gardening-verses
Never mind. The page displays fine now. (When I was posting the comment, it was a mass of error messages.)
Hi, I was looking up flowering weeds to try to find names of some for a word search puzzle I am doing for the church bulletin tomorrow and it brought me here. I enjoyed reading some of your posts. I also enjoy “flowering weeds” I think the wildflowers the Lord has created hold beauty all their own ( I even like dandelions hehe – they are amazing and fun).