On this particular day I was trimming a very-overgrown holly bush - taller than me and much larger around - when it struck me that my life is very much like that holly bush.
While it is sturdy, heartily growing, providing berries for yard critters, and healthy, it was also way too big, full of tangled runners and snarled-up branches, and loaded with tree litter and pine cones from the towering firs overhead. It was basically a holly-mess.
As I carefully (darn those leaves are sharp!) clipped each branch until I could finally see the main stalks I realized that much like that holly, it's time to trim my life back also, get back to basics. Trim back what I don't need. Get rid of the mental "litter". I'm not killing the plant, I'm helping it to go forth and thrive, and next year it will be full and lush and far easier to maintain. And a whole lot smaller!
The really nice surprise was that the bush was so overgrown it was hiding two landscape lights I had forgotten were even there! Talk about hiding your light... This, too, resonated within me. I've been hiding my light.
The other nice surprise was the sheer cacophony of birds chirping away as if to say "Please don't take our little red berries!" but I promised them that they'd have them anyway. I left the berry branches where they could feast, and feast they did. It was fun to look around and see so many outdoor critters monitoring my yard work, I'm not sure if they were approving or disapproving, they're not used to seeing me outside working. I like to think they were just saying 'hello!'.
It's wonderful to see something so simple - trimming an overgrown bush - produce such a feeling of peace and harmony, a symphony from within that said, "This too, shall be okay. You're not killing the bush, you're trimming to down to its most basic so it can grow back thicker, fuller, stronger, happier."
Go forward knowing that you, too, can heartily trim back what you don't need. Thin your clutter. It'll all work out.
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