I don’t have an especially green thumb around the garden. However, I have learned that when you want to remove weeds, it’s important to uproot them completely. Then, keep tending and adjusting the garden bed for best results.
Mary Baker Eddy, in her Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, uses gardening as a metaphor to refer to maintaining our well-being. First, she asks, “Are we clearing the gardens of thought by uprooting the noxious weeds of passion, malice, envy, and strife?” (p. 343). Then later on the same page she adds, “The weeds of mortal mind are not always destroyed by the first uprooting.”
When I applied this to myself, I saw how the “noxious weeds” in my mental garden represented an inner strife that had long held me back and kept me battling feelings of self-doubt and timidity. In other words, it wasn’t always easy for me to be confident.
