Day 50: Replanting

Now that I am happily unemployed, I've filled most of my time this week with gardening.  I've never really understood what all the hype was about gardening- I  thought it was something I would appreciate when I was old and my children had moved away.  Talk about a misconception! I'm obsessed with it!  There are so many spiritual parallels you can make with gardening.  Maybe I'm just in a "soul-searching" mood lately, but I've been all about it. 

For example, the flowers that you are about to plant into the ground, they are in a time of transition.  They are planted as little seedlings into these temporary pots with the intentions of being bought and moving to someones home to be planted in their garden.  It is in this garden where the plants can really grow and stretch out their roots far beneath the earth.  Can't we all identify with these plants?  We are all birthed into a temporary area (our families) but we aren't intended to stay there forever.  No! We must move on, transition if you will, and be planted somewhere where our roots can grow far beneath the earth.  Maybe our new garden isn't that far from our original pot, or maybe its across the earth.  Either way, transitions are a part of life and they allow us to let our roots grow and run free.  Yes the pot is comfortable, its familiar, but eventually it will stifle our roots that so desperately want to stretch their legs. 

happy planting friends!
J