The garden of Me...

I am not a gardener. I do not try. I do not pretend. I kill all living things-well, green things, anyway. I even kill my children's 'virtual gardens' on Webkinz world. Just to lay a foundation here.
Well, yesterday afternoon I was outside. I will not say gardening, because then my hydrangea bushes will know what I was trying to do to them, and fall down, dead. I was removing leaves from the area where the flowers are- again, not a garden. I was taking the dead flowers off of the bushes. I was pulling up dandelions (ha, i originally typed daffodils- that would be so typical of me, to uproot flowers, rather than weeds).
Well, as I was... doing those things, but not gardening, I noticed two tulips. And I remembered planting bulbs, way before winter. And 2 of them grew. I was astonished. Amazed. Happy. I grew something! Other than children, which seem to sprout from my womb, no matter what I do, I've never grown anything before! lol. I grew flowers! And my bushes are sprouting , too! What is going on here?
Then I got to thinking (another thing I attempt to do, yet not very well). Did I really do anything? Did I do something to those bulbs, other than stick them in the dirt? Nope. Did I do anything to the hydrangea bushes, at all? Nope. Actually, I haven't touched them in 6 months. At least. So, to whom does the credit go? You got it, God did it!
Now, I know most of you are thinking, is this girl nuts? Happy because 2 measly flowers grew? Is she just realizing that God grows all things? Duh! No, of course not. I wasn't raised by wolves. Or in a concrete cell. I was just marveling at these things.
As I was removing dead flowers, twigs, leaves and branches, I was thinking of how God grows, prunes (is that the correct gardening term?), and trims back me and my life.
I am reading an awesome book, the one I mentioned in a previous post. Let me tell you, it is life changing. I can now see, that only by pruning me, can the beauty that God intends for me, come forth.
I looked up 'prune' and this is what I read: prune2
Audio Help /prun/ –verb (used with object), pruned, prun·ing.
1. to cut or lop off (twigs, branches, or roots).
2.to cut or lop superfluous or undesired twigs, branches, or roots from; trim.
3.to rid or clear of (anything superfluous or undesirable).
4.to remove (anything considered superfluous or undesirable).

I like definitions 3 & 4. That is what God is doing in my life. And I'm loving it. I am already seeing growth. I am seeing 'flowers', or beauty. I know it's painful. (I wonder if it hurts the flowers too?) But, I'm feeling like, Who cares? The end result is worth the effort.
In removing the superfluous (I looked that up, too. Unnecessary, or Needless) and undesirable what will be left? Only the necessary, needed and desirable parts of me. And that is something I am working and waiting for. Because I already see it happening.