My dear friend Debbi made this yard art stone for me many years ago. Doesn’t it look lovely nestled in among those tiny green plants?
I have left them there although I normally pull them all out. That’s because they are weeds in my garden bed! My quote for today is one I love as a gardener:
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878.
I don’t just love this quote for the chance to rationalize leaving the weeds but it makes me think too.
I just have to wonder what is valuable to God that I over look as little and unnecessary? What may I have cleared out of the Way that really has virtue not yet discovered?