Song Verse: “So watch the garden of your heart, never let the evil start, little thoughts are little seeds, growing good or evil deeds, into flowers sweet…or weeds….they all must grow!“–Author unknown
I talked about forgiveness in my last post and how it can be liberating if you learn to forgive. Today I wanted to talk about the potential consequences of holding on to bitterness and ill feelings towards others, you current situation or towards anything for that matter.
When you allow yourself to occupy your mind with ill feelings or bitterness or negativity of any kind, you are blocking the way to any potential
Bitterness is like a weed that unfortunately doesn’t just stop at the negative feelings that you may have towards a person or situation, but then it will go beyond this and will begin to absorb the nutrition from the blossoming flowers of progress, creativity and life-giving thoughts or ideas that you may otherwise be able to nurture.
Bitterness can grow to such an overwhelming proportions just as certain weeds can tend to do, that once they have grown to a certain size, they are much harder to eradicate. The roots grow deeper, and the stalks grow so thick that in order to cut them it will take an axe instead of a simple weeding tool were you to have tended to it at the beginning!
If allowed to grow and fester for a prolonged period of time, bitterness can even cause you to develop into much more serious physical illnesses that can even be fatal! You have to guard yourself from this awful weed! Guard the garden of your heart from the terrible weed of bitterness. If you take notice of bitterness popping up its ugly head in your heart, take action right away, do whatever it takes to get ride if it, before it grows into a monster of a plant that saps you of your strength, both mental and physical!
Have you had experiences where you held on to bitterness and were able to finally let it go? How did it make you feel once you were freed from its grip. Share your story!
