During prayer this week the Lord took me back to tend the soil. We were in a large back yard with an area that was tilled up. There were several plants He was weeding from the garden. The different weeds He pulled would come out of the dirt with the large tap roots attached. From the surface things looked finished and clear. Then the Lord took a sifter and began sifting the soil. What ended up in that sifter were many smaller feeder roots that broke off as the tap root was pulled. What the Lord put on my heart is that many of us, myself included tend to tackle the immediate problem but we fail to make sure we remove everything that is feeding the weeds under the surface. What we feed ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally and atmospherically is what hinders us or helps us grow. What we surround ourselves with and allow in our lives can either feed the soil as nutrients producing a fruitful harvest, or drain the soil of those nutrients as it regrows the root...