The Garden

The spiritual life is like a garden.  Gardens need weeding.  Weeds can overtake the fruit, the food, the flowers and make for a mess.  Daily meditation is a way for me to allow my inner self, from whence so much good and not so good arises, to be weeded of the not so good.  Selfishness is like a weed.  I think I am going to do a good work, bear good fruit, but if I skip daily mediation, spiritual reading, and such, I might end up doing what I think is a good work but it will be for selfish motives and become a real mess.  My will can become weak and my judgments cloudy, and the right way so obscure if I am not into some daily maintenance of a fit spiritual condition.