Sometimes, cutting grass around my house really gets on my nerves. We have about 2 acres of land, and mowing my yard is often spread across a couple of days. I don't try to mow it every weekend, only about every 2 weeks. As the summer wears on, it seems I'm cutting more weeds than grass! Grass is hard to grow, and weeds are hard to kill. Example- my yard has so many patches of crabgrass, that I can cut it one week, and a week-10 days later, while the rest of the surrounding grass is still short, long spindly stems are growing up through the crabgrass, already 2+ ft. long. I've got thorny vines popping up everywhere, and I gave up a long time ago on trying to pull them up or kill them- I just mow over them as well, along with every other weird weed that pops up. Feels like an "exercise in futility", battling back the elements, holding off the "creeping green" every year. A never-ending chore.

When I complain about it every week, I also remind myself, "A result of the fall." Biblically, its true, actually- "creation was subjected to futility" (Romans 8:20) as a result of Adam's & Eve's sin, and expulsion from the Garden. Adam was condemned to toil in the dirt all the days of his life, struggling against "thorns and thistles", by the sweat of his brow (Genesis 3:17-19). Boy, I can identify some days...

I look forward to the day creation is redeemed and restored- "the creation itself will also be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God" (Romans 8:21). That means perfection again, beauty fully restored, creation once again our ally, not our adversary.

And no more cutting "my weeds."