Weeds

For the last week and a half, I have been working in the Market Garden, more commonly known as MG. Every day we spend about 3 1/2 hours in the outdoors pulling weed after weed after weed. By the end of the day, we are all ready to drop. For most people, MG is a drag. We either spend the whole time bent over yanking weeds from the ground, or we spend it on our stomachs, riding the weed cart.

The weed cart is an interesting invention that is made to help us work more efficiently, and with less effort. It is basically a trailer, hooked up to the back of the tractor. There are nine positions on it for people to lay one. You lie on your stomach, rest your forehead on the forehead rest, and drop your arms into the carrot rows below. As the tractor pulls the weed cart, you pull up the weeds before they pass underneath you. If you lift your head up and look ahead, it is really easy to get depressed. The rows seem so long, and the weeds so many. Also looking back isn't a great idea either. You see how many mistakes you made; all of the weeds you missed.

This reminds me a lot of life. While looking a little ahead is a good thing to do, looking to far ahead can be daunting. You may feel swamped with all that needs to be done. Looking back at your mistakes can help you do better in the future, but constantly dwelling on the past will cause you to miss everything that is going on today. The best thing to do is to focus on what God has set before you at the moment. We must trust God to do what is right. You can trust that the tractor driver will drive where is best. And he is watching you. He will never go faster than you can handle. He will slow down enough for you to pull the weeds that are giving you trouble. You can trust God always, no matter how tall the weeds in your life are.

Heather