The Root of the Matter
This past week Kim and I spent some time weeding the mulch beds around our home. As many of you probably know, the problem with pulling weeds is that, unless you can get to the root, just getting rid of the plant on the surface does not really solve your weed problem. Unless you get to the “root of the matter,” the weeds will come back. It seems to me, however, that weeds were designed so as to make it almost impossible to completely remove them by their roots. They will quickly break somewhere near the surface. Thus, unless you dig down deep (and sometimes really deep) into the ground, you’ll never really get rid of the weeds. (Of course, another option is to use a chemical of some sort that goes down through the soil to kill the plant at its roots.) If we’re honest, when we are facing the difficulties, conflicts, and challenges of life, we very often want a quick fix—like pulling a weed from the top. In reality, however, there’s often a lot more happening below the surface of our l