If there are weeds in your life, you just need to pull them.
We can't just ignore them or yank their tops off at the surface. We can't just shoot them with some deadening chemicals. We can't just throw plastic over everything and sprinkle some mulch on top -- they will grow there, too...because it is 'in' our hearts that they grow.
We have to do the work of pulling them out by the root -- the difficult, dirtying effort to get down on our knees. The discipline. The regularity. The prayer, acknowledging that the length and depth of some roots is yet unknown to us.
Nonetheless, tend your garden...pull the weeds out.
