Neighborhood Pruning
It’s been an interesting month in my neighborhood.
Big trucks, saws, ladder/buckets (whatever they are really called), tree eater machines (whatever they are called, too) have ruled our days.
We are being pruned.
Changed Landscape
Trees disappeared all up and down the busy street on the hill. The beautiful bower I admired when driving through it is gone. So are trees whose limbs reached out like they would grab our cars as we whiz by. Once the trees were on the ground, the big chewing machine made them disappear forever. No rubbish left.
Now you see stumps everywhere on both sides.
Still, stumps notwithstanding, the crews did a pretty good job of keeping the aesthetics. We live in a populated area, but we still have a rural feel. Thanks guys, for preserving that.
However, what was hidden is now exposed. Just ask my neighbor, whose house sits close to the road. Where once several skinny trees grew up in front of their house, now it is wide open to view. I was grateful that was not true of my property, my trees are far enough away from the road. But then, I noted that if the neighbor between us moves his trailer, my backyard sticks out for all to see.
Ah well. The sacrifices we make.
Observations
I had a front row seat to the activity. Hours of entertainment for a week. Sometimes I got to be in the activity.
A pilot car led the way up and down the hill for a week. The crew, again, did a fine job of getting us in and out of the neighborhood. In between felled/chewed trees, the pilot car led parades of vehicles first one direction, then the other.
They finished the job in a week. We thought they were done, but today they came back. This time to trim tree limbs that posed some danger to electric wires in the air. Good thing.
Thoughts
We can go on for years doing the same old thing. Not making any changes. Our ways become dense and overgrown. The limbs of our trees of life twine together and don’t make any sense anymore. The trunks twist and old, wandering limbs interfere with new information (electric wires) that we may need to move our current forward.
Is it time to prune your life? Maybe God has something new for you in mind, but the limbs of your old growth are stunting anything fresh He might have for you.
Spring is a good season to sit quiet with our Creator and reflect on Him and the path He has prepared for us. New life is everywhere. Once the old is pruned away, we can see what all the time was there. It just wasn’t accessible.
Can you see the unused gifts and talents God has built into you? Are they accessible now?
What will you do with them?
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