Thank you Maryl; THE CHRIST ACTION AND HIS PRESENCE ARE WITH US EVERY MOMENT AND EVERY WHERE WE ARE.

God makes us new every moment. Sure, God’s image renews itself constantly. To me that means that we have the opportunity to grow with just a change of thought, as if God Himself had pruned us. http://bible.cc/john/15-1.htm
The action of Christ in our thoughts and lives is mercifully pruning materialism and sin out of us. Can we bare this needed pruning with grace and so ensure that the trials are not in vain and don’t need to be repeated? His grace is unfolding daily.
ESPAÑOL
Dios nos renueva a cada momento. Claro, la imagen de Dios se renueva constantemente. Para mí, eso significa que tenemos la oportunidad de crecer con un simple cambio de pensamiento, como si Dios mismo nos hubiera podado. http://bibliaparalela.com/john/15-1.htm
La acción de Cristo en nuestros pensamientos y vidas, nos poda misericordiosamente del materialismo y de pecado. ¿ Podríamos aguantar esta poda necesaria con gracia y así asegurarnos que las pruebas no son en vano y no necesitan repetirse? Su gracia se revela día a día.

Excellent

Thank you Maryl for this great Lift. As a tree-grower of some note, I've also been a great pruner. I used to tell people "Pruning is a science to encourage growth. It's not just a matter of seeing how many truck loads of branches we can remove." My husband would wring his hands and predict dire consequences, but the day would come when the whole tree would be covered in the most glorious new soft green foliage. I see that as I drive to and from church. It's so beautiful I have to laugh out loud! And it's interesting to look back and realize "I don't think that way anymore." These Lifts - I was looking back through the early ones in August 2009 this afternoon - must have removed mountains of false beliefs, worn out human hypotheses, and unjust pain and suffering through the endless action of love, compassion, and reaching out to our dear brothers and sisters around the world, in their times of terror, and in their days of joy and celebration.
Thank you Nate and the production team; the BoL and lecturers; and the always gracious Lift family.

Wonderful message. We can look forward to the gardeners care and love

Thank you Maryl for your beautiful thoughts that show so clearly what true "fasting" as Jesus called it can be. Istn't fasting = intelligent pruning ? I love it.
And thank you Margaret # 4 for your comments. Yes - the daily lifts have become a necessity, almost a daily tradition.
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La imagen de Dios se renueva constantemente.
Juan 15:1Yo soy la vid verdadera, y mi Padre es el labrador.
Juan 15:2. Todo pámpano que en mí no lleva fruto, lo quitará; y todo aquel que lleva fruto, lo limpiará, para que lleve más fruto.
Thank you Maryl.

Thank you Maryl and all. These daily lifts are excellent pruning shears!

Many thanks Maryl for that inspiring lift. Yes. "The action of Christ in our thoughts and lives is mercifully pruning materialism and sin out of us...Not a day goes by without His [Love's] unfolding grace." "I know no fear, with Thee [Love] at hand to bless," "O Spirit, source of light,/ Thy grace is unconfined;/ Dispel the gloomy shades of night,/ Reveal the light of Mind." (Christian Science Hymnal #8 & #240).

Perhaps we can liken this message to clearing our minds of troubled thoughts as well? Remembering the Love of God. Thank you Maryl.

Thank you for that reminder to be good gardeners.

Podar, quitar las ramas secas o inútiles que lo único que hacen es quitar sabia a la planta y fortaleza al retoño.
Cualquier similitud, No es cazualidad, si queremos dar buenos frutos cual viña debemos desarraigar todo lo que entorpezca el desarroollo el buen fruto y la maduración.

Imaginemos un campo lleno de flores son muy bellos y de variados colores, pero perecen con facilidad, perdiéndose entre la maleza que las cubre y mueren.
Ahora imaginemos una bella flor en un jardin donde delicadas manos limpian las impurezas, sacan los yuyos que pretenden ahogarlas las podan en su tiempo, las riegan y las cubren del frio y del calor, y florecen robusta y bella.
Si nosotros le damos el mismo cuidado a la bella flor que somos nosotros quitando la maleza que son los pensamientos erroneos, los anhelos por este mundo material, que son las ramas secas que no dejan espacio para que la planta se desarrolle y florezca, regándola con el agua viva, que mana de la fuente del Amor, brotará con bellos pétalos de puros pensamientos, enrraizados en fuerte tronco de verdadera fortaleza el origen espiritual la esencia de todo ser, la solitaria flor se convertirá en jardin donde todas las flores... florecen.

Muchas gracias, thank you so much

Excellent ,,thank you . :-)

This is so inspiring! Thank you, Maryl !!!

thank you

wonderful so clear so simple so true thank you

So needed today. Thank you so very much for that.

" .......reveal the light of Mind. " What a blessed tho't to keep wiith us today. Many thanks.

Thank you so much! and #10, yes! I awakened starting out with a problem that I had already turned over to God......do I doubt his omnipotence! I smiled instead and then listened to your Lift! It's cloudy outside but not in my thought! So grateful for these Daily Lifts and this is an especially great one!

This is an excellent daily life, Very very much appreciated. Thank you Mary

Excellent lift Maryl! I really appreciate your inspired words!

Thank you so much! This applies to so many areas in my life and I love the analogy. Such an incredible comparison.

Thanks so much, Maryl, for this gentle reminder that God is constantly with us while we're pruning away the material for the spiritual. This reminded me of Hymn 135 that begins:
"I know no life divided, O Lord of life from Thee;
In Thee is life provided, For all mankind and me:"
And the second verse:
"I fear no tribulation, Since what so e'er it be,
It makes no separation Between my Lord and me:
Since Thou, my God and Father, Dost claim me as Thine own,
I richly shall inherit All good, from Thee alone."

How comforting it is to know that we shall inherit abundant good, and only good, from our Father-Mother God who is Love and loving.

Thanks for the great analogy, Mary. How true that we all need pruning and to prune the vines (or snarls) of our lives as we grow onward.

On the surface, who looks forward to pruning? What, cut off things that have been useful? that I'm comfortable with? So nothing is left but stubble? How can that be good?

Thanks for making the big picture so clear! Your vines produced generously when they were pruned, and very little when the new owners didn't follow through on the process. You have to love and trust both to do the pruning and to submit to pruning.

It's good to be reminded that God will take us safely through from stubble to abundant yields.

Maryl, thank you so much for this important guidance about pruning. I pray that I may have the grace and wisdom to accept God's all-knowing instruction.

Incredible insight Maryl, here's to accepting challenges with grace and not repeating them! Thank you!

Wow! A particularly useful message. Many thanks, Maryl.

Thank so much, Maryl. Muito obrigada Maryl.

What a great metaphor! Thank you. Pruning away mortal thought and opinions allows the truth of grace and growth to operate. Good one. You have helped me plan a wonderful day!

Great message!
Chop. Chop. Chop.
Fruit. Fruit. Fruit.

Thanks, Maryl!

Wonderful Maryl! Getting rid of the superfluous makes way for the new and essential! Great lift, and a model for healing, because when God (Truth) rids us of error, we are made ready for healings.

Thank you; so much.....that was Beautiful....

Thank you very much, Maryl, for today's Lift. Love it. So much came to thought for me, including...God's law of progress, demanding of us only what we certainly can fulfill*...the need to refine our understanding of the power (sovereignty!) of God's laws to then apply them in every day experiences, even daring to expect "miracles!"...blessings ever-available, always accessible (like juicy grapes on the vine), waiting for acknowledgment, acceptance, and application (I'm picturing drinking down an ice cold glassful of grape juice with thorough satisfaction and pure enjoyment. In fact, I'm going to the grocery store to buy some today :-)...something I learned in elementary school, "Good, better, best/never let it rest/'til the good is better/and the better/is best." ...and this (just in! :-) - the grapes keep growing, we prune the vine. sort the grapes, eat or drink the sweet and discard the sour!!! And we keep growing: always learning, always nourished with Good unfolding, uninterrupted. Again, thanks, Maryl.

*"Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power.
These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law de-
mands of us only what we can certainly fulfil." (Science and Health, p. 232)

Oh, Maryl, Lovely, Lovely, Lovely! Thank you so much! I thought of my Mother, Mary Jo, who was an expert Gardener and who knew the benefits of pruning, both physically and metaphysically! I love the idea of the Christ at work in our thought, "pruning" us of unwanted ideas and tendencies. I also saw in a clearer way what Mary Baker Eddy meant when she wrote in Science and Health: "Trials are proofs of God's care." Wow! I never thought of trials as being God's way of pruning our thought for fruitful growth. God is sooooo Good! Love and Hugs to All!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES. oh,yes. :)

Thank you so much, very helpful

Thank-you a million times over. Just what I needed...of course.

THANK YOU! I LOVE the thought of GOD as constantly renewing us as we grow spiritually.

Hi, Maryl, thank you! This is exactly what I was thinking of this morning as I was studying the Lesson on Spirit. What a powerful lesson John, chapter 15, is! If we really want the fruit, we need not fear the pruning -- and act on it.

I had a very interesting experience about pruning, recently -- there was a group of the large palmetto leaves at the base of a light pole at an intersection on my way to Church. I would always have to pull out a bit into the intersection to see the cars coming from that direction. For months I kept thinking that the plant should be cut down so we could see. Then I started thinking that I should do it. Well, months went by, and finally I put two pruning instrument in my car, to be ready to cut it down next time I went by.

The very next time I went to Church, however -- the plant had been cut down!

Lesson learned: Nothing happened as long as I just thought about it (no prayer, just thought, maybe even grumbling!). But as soon as I took the first steps in acting on it and made time for the change, the picture changed, immediately -- and the need was met without me having to personally do anything, after all. I love this lesson!

Thank you.

Thank you, Maryl. Very helpful analogy!

Thank you vor this strong lift.

Thank you

What a powerful message, Maryl! I'm joining this treasured Lift Family in praying for the grace to accept Divine Wisdom's pruning! I'm reminded of my experience with a small backyard planting project ~ we planted a dwarf peach tree. How thrilling when it was filled with blooms that grew into branches filled with fruit! A friend saw this and told me I'd need to pluck off at least half of the budding fruit. I couldn't bear to do that. How sad the morning when I saw that the weight of the fruit had broken several branches! Lesson learned!
Your reminder, Maryl and Daily Lift Team, will be with all of us as we pray "Give us GRACE for today!"
Deeply grateful!

Thank you, Maryl, and thank you, God!!

Thanks Maryl! Great lift for today. Just a quick question though, did you say "Lady Twitter feeling very biblical"? That's what it sounded like, but I have no idea what the reference is.

MODERATOR'S NOTE:
"Late each winter, feeling very biblical,...."

I'm not sure that I have clear words to describe the pruning I am experiencing as I think it is a true example of how hidden, powerful, and deceptive error in thought can be. I was born in a time and place where "doing the right thing" was uppermost leading to severe disapproval to keep one in line and protect accepted standards. Consequently, I readily saw anything that was out of place -- but not only in myself -- in others as well. This observance of standards easily results in critiscism which I think I saw as good and saving situations from deteriorating, and in having "a strong character." In reality as I am learning, "seeing the perfect man" was the step to take for unfoldment of good. The pruning has been severe and painful because I thought it was good being destroyed and standards crumbling, and I was lost, confused, and hurt for many many decades. Lately, in praying to "rule out of me all sin" I am at least growing in awareness of the critical thought that is so harmful in demanding that judgement be made on myself and others. I find although I do not know what to do while my world is shaking and seems to be descending into wrongdoing, I can be still and quiet and pray to see the hand of God of good guiding all.
This lift is so helpful to me. The shock of the shears stops me and I can let go and let God. Maryl's words of how this step in the process is the very action that will lead to fulfillment of growth, give great encouragement. Many thanks.

Thank you so much, a wonderful reminder that in "pruning", we don't give up anything, we experience All!

Thinking about this lift, I pictured several challenging, unhappy times I've experienced during my life, and I noticed how much easier it is to see, in retrospect, all I learned from those experiences, making me a happier, more loving, more effective person today. So I feel very much at peace with those difficult times. But I also pictured a few very challenging unhappy experiences that (I just noticed) I still look back on with some feelings of fear, resentment,sadness, or even shame, and I don't have any sense that I learned something important or true. I guess these are areas where I need to do some radical pruning; these must be the vines that, as Jesus said, "bear no fruit" and which I need to "cut off." I don't need them! So I'm calling on the shears of Love and Truth and inviting them clean up my garden. I've always wanted to be close to God and don't need to hold onto anything that seems to get in the way. (I'm picturing something like that thicket of brambles around Sleeping Beauty's castle, only dead and powerless in the face of Love).

Thank you so much Maryl.

Thank you.

Exactly what I needed to hear today! I am so very grateful for the daily lift and all the illuminating comments. Thanks Meryl and all.

the replies from nos.48 and 50 truly helped me this morning. For so many years, I have acted out of thinking that I believed. While thinking, I was holding to a standard, apparently, all the while, it was me, becoming,,judgemental, bitter and resentful. Why wasn't God honoring all the "good", that I was doing, or so I thought. Now, i am ashamed to face people, can find no right way to make it right, but Thankfully see that while it feels awful, I don't need to think that it translates into God's disapproval, and so to unprecedented discouragement. Thank you for this timely message.

47 Michael, Oh I like Lady Twitter, feeling very biblical! Interesting how we hear what we are familiar with...

Maryl, I love the clear translation of John 15 that you read from...thanks!

Marvelous message. One that is so needed and appreciated. Thank you.

Dear Maryl -

Thank you very much for this thoughtful daily lift. I too love the analogy you use and all the examples from the daily lift community have been absolutely wonderful. I have started a practice where I take note of some of the very meaningful comments to me in a place I call "good thoughts". Well, it is really being filled up today with all of the magnificent ideas from the Lift itself and the commenters contributions! Thank you all so much!
This week I have been struggling with daily sinus headaches. I have been working on this diligently and have called on a practitioner as well. It has definitely improved but this morning there was still a remnant. The daily thought for today on Spirituality.com as well as this idea of pruning has really helped to dissipate the remainder for me. "There is divine authority for believing in the superiority of spiritual power over material resistance." Science & Health pg 134, verse 28.

What healing work these daily lifts are doing, and thankyou to all those that share from their hearts to encourage us all with their courage and commitment to knowing more of God's dear love and truth. We have His promise "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free" This lift truly helped me today too. Thankyou.

Maryl, awesome Lift! Simple idea, clearly stated, lovingly delivered.
Thank you.

Thanks Maryl and everyone for sharing. I'll be busy today pruning my garden.

Such a great analogy! Thank you :)

Just wanted to add a note to #53, Kathleen, you are approved by God. God loves and approves you and all Her creation, now and forever. Your note sounds as if you are already actively pruning.

Such a great analogy! Thank you : )

What great wisdom, how wonderful to be expectant of this Loving pruning, and with grace, I'm very much going to share this inspiring Lift!

Thanks!

This is one of those lifts that spark a deep cleansing of thought from so many of us. It is such a graceful way of viewing chastisement from our Father-Mother God. It is necessary to get the pruning done, as you illustrated, even though we don't see material results right away. Keep right on trusting that Spirit is a divine law that is always working. I laughed out loud at Bill, #31 with his chop, chop, chop/fruit, fruit, fruit. Thanks for the laugh...so good! I also felt the honesty and sweetness of #48. Meryl, your own study has blessed so many of us today. Thank you!

thank u, a wonderful blessing in humility.

Love that the Christ is pruning us gracefully;) Helps me understand and practice that I don't have to/can't have an individual /personal sense about growth/progress - that Grace has it!!! THANKS Maryl;)
XXOOO

Martha Setwart said that by keeping her trees properly pruned she never lostt a single tree during storms when others had their trees destroyed. This shows that by keeping our thoughts properly "pruned" we experience safetty and no loss in spiritual productivity. Thanks for this beautiful lesson.

I certainly have been feeling pruned. Now to accept it with grace. Thanks!

What a great thought, thank you Maryl.

Having a large "bushy" back yard I have really gotten into pruning and have
found it so help in my growth of C. S. pruning out thoughts opens the door
for new ideas and "A New Birth".
Thank you for your good thoughts.
T

I loved this lift but everytime I've ever pruned the plant/tree has died. Not sure how how to extend this analogy to these circumstances..

My heart goes out to #48 Jocelan and #53 Kathleen. I too am grappling with the fallout from an incident where I felt that I was upholding a standard. The standard I wanted to uphold was a simple and normal one, too, so I STILL feel that it's right! But in preparing my thought for church yesterday, I realized that there's an even higher way of coping with conflicting behaviours and choices, and that is to "unsee" the mortal conflict altogether and to see in its place how God's ideas never irritate or grate on each other, but instead that we're a permanent blessing to one another. Divine intelligence can supply the humor, the forward steps, the gentle words, the safety in meekness, the courage to hold a position (or some part of it) if needed, the creativity to find an even higher or more nuanced solution...whatever will heal and advance. I'm praying "Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." God will uphold the right standards!

Thanks a lot Maryl. Very interesting lift.

I love it, Maryl. It is so clear.

I'm about a year new to CS and I have to say this has so far been the best part of my life. I have had the opportunity to climb some of the many height's of Mind this year and just let me tell you thank God for grace. Thank God for the ability to respond with grace and for constant grace that Love unconditionally gives. I have been in some seemingly tough spots with living situations and relationships and Divine Love has met the need each time. I have often been tempted to be resentful toward myself and others for what I think I could have done or what I think they could have but I have learned that the pruning process is not on my terms or someone else but only on Life's term and I'll tip my hat to that because if it were the other way around I would still be aimlessly condemned to the streets of DT LA. The age old lesson :) Thanks for your thoughts on this Mrs Walters. This is again a tough spot and there is some pruning jumping off but as I wait patiently in action on God listening mean while. It okay that I don't know exactly what's next with everything cause in the eternity of it all its what Principle seeks in the fruit of this life!

This is a wonderfully useful. Thank you. I think there are ways to effectively hold out our branches to be pruned by Love and I'm grateful for Christian Science in its revealing of those ways ... and for other individuals who help make it all clearer through their practice of love and Science.

Many thanks for the pruning analogy.

My friends who are master gardeners and arborists, reluctantly sold an adjoining property filled with fruit trees, nut trees, grapes and more. At first they were heartbroken.

As the new owner, a developer, leveled the property and built beautiful homes, a new crop sprang up in the form of neighbors and then dear friends. Once a year they had a special party for all of their new friends.

Drastic pruning? yes, but a big lesson for them, and I.
A pruning lesson they shared with me. Count back to the main branch and when you count a cluster of three buds or small branches, cut just ahead of these.

My humble arbor thrived and my gratitude is boundless,

UJ

What a beautiful analogy and what terrific comments. So fruitful! Many thanks, Maryl. Well put. I am so grateful to all of you--each a unique expression of divine Mind!

Wonderful lift, Maryl. Thank you so much. I have a grape vine, and you have changed forever how I think about the pruning of it.

Thank you Maryl!

Thank you for this up lifting LIFT. I am going out now and prune my 30 roses and prune all material my thoughts and then enjoy the resulting Glory of God.

Deep gratitude for your important metaphor of pruning, Maryl, and your gracious context. And thanks, too, for the many Lifters' insights and comments. It's the spiritual journey we are all on, sharing "the rugged way," that connects us together as family, isn't it.

This is an excelent lift! thank you so very much!

Thanks, wonderful lift and good comments by those above. A perfect lift as this is the time of year we prune and clear away all the dead branches in our gardens! To make way for the burst of sping that will soon be here! Thanks again!

I have grape vines that I must prune each year so I can understand the comparison. Good work.

it has been a long day - Thank you so much for this spiritual message

Thank you, Maryl --- Very good advice.

Great thought for today and all days. thanks so much.

Welcome to #76 Grant HP! Wonderful to hear of your first year in Christian Science! You have all of our Love and Support here! Keep Coming Back! It works, if you work it! Much Love!

Great analogy, Maryl.
I've learned that proper pruning of trees, for instance, allows for a stronger structure to develop, for more light to penetrate throughout the leaf canopy and for better air circulation which helps to prevent damage from wind storms. And so in our spiritual pruning, we grow stonger in faith and understanding, letting more of the light of Truth reach our thinking, and allowing the inspiration of Spirit to flow more freely in our daily lives.
Love to one and all of you beautiful, individual "trees"in this Lift family -- "...And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." (Psalms 1:3)

Thank you very much.

I almost didn't make time to listen to this -- but am I ever glad I did at day's end.

WOW to every word from Maryl, uttered from the depths of experience (in pruning grape vines and clingy, tangled "vines" of mortal mind.

And WOW to every word for each commenter. One can feel the humble willingness to be pruned by Love and the longing to grow in grace as a result of that pruning.

I'm reminded of a lovely Church Alive blog about pruning fig trees. It's here: http://members.christianscience.com/church-alive/church-and-the-fig-tree

Showers of blessings on all of our pruned heads :-)

And a double portion of blessings today to #s 48, 50, 56, 73 and 76. But, really, you're all beautiful and fruitful, from Maryl through #84 (and counting)!

Thank you, Maryl!! So glad I heard this inspiring lift, even though I didn't get to it until this evening. I was able to identify a number of things that popped up during the day which require pruning in thought, and I happily and humbly await the shears. We don't need (or want) any obstacles to growth! We know the hand of the Gentle Gardener knows best and we can trust His wisdom.

What a great message for all of us, AND our churches! Sometimes I don't like being 'pruned' but realize that I'm ultimately much the better for it. Thanks for this lift!

What a great lift!! So much substance in it. Thank you so much. I will look differently at challenges from now on and allow God to prune away.

Thank you for this lift and the varied responses. It is most helpful, in a time of "down-sizing", to anticipate new opportunities for growth and "new birth", as the necessary pruning of thought and things clears the way.

If any of us start to feel a little "sore" from all our mental pruning, we can take a break and read a pick-me-up tale about one VERY enthusiastic gardener named Ricky: http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2012/0127/The-four-legged-gardener

Thank you, Maryl!

This is such a needed message. Must go and let the Christ prune that which is no real part of me!

Alan from Boston, 2/3/12

Thank you Maryl for this wonderful analogy. So much of life's good fruitage has unfolded since my move to Boston six years ago. With all the demands and simultaneous time-intensive activities, I seem to be moving with more grace, indeed, and with a greater sense of dominion over all work and civic activities, knowing always that I am in the blessing business. Many thanks.

Alan Pearlmutter

Thanks Maryl, prune with relish

That is absolutely BRILLIANT and extraordinarily helpful to me at this time. What a GREAT reminder. Thank you so much, Mary

Came to this Lift a few days late; but glad I did! A powerful image and admonition that we do not have to keep trying to push new growth from old branches! Thanks and I am grateful for this!

Very grateful. Listened to this several times.

I love the idea that just when everything is falling apart on the outside, on the inside God is replenishing us and causing us to bear fruit. What a great analogy!

This is an awesome Daily Lift. I think of it often when things seem to be falling away from me that are no longer useful. And I am seeing examples of grapes in abundance. Thanks for this lift so much.

Thanks Maryl for a great lift! I have been thinking about pruning and producing fruit all day! And thanks to everyone for their messages as well.

Sometimes it is easier to graciously accept or invite and celebrate the pruning when we don't try to point out the good of what we don't want to let go of or be separated from. Clinging to excuses for keeping these branches might be beside the point or counterproductive. That is not the issue. It is what brings about the most/best fruit, the best health of the tree/vine, and the most benefit to the garden or vineyard. I recently enjoyed pruning at the Home Orchard Society's event and the scions or dormant branches/vines were sold for grafting even better fruit trees or vines. It does not have to be bad or worse than someone else's, just what needs to be removed now for optimal fruitage. Trust, humbly obey, be free, enjoy the progress, and let others get the most out of theirs. So much good can be made out of these, especially cut grape vines, but we only have to focus on our own work and enjoy the budding progress, unafraid by the apparent appearance of dead or dull inactivity. Undisturbed and undistracted.

What a wonderful reading room display this will make - Bible and SH and hymn quotes everywhere and just in time for SPRING!! . Thank you, Maryl!!! And all the contributions!!! Fruitage everywhere!

I absolutely love that. I am so glad to be home from a long journey and to catch up on a month's worth of Lifts. What could be better? It makes me feel rich! As I become more conscious each day of the life I am living and seeking the spiritual truths within it, I am able to see more readily the pruning that I need in my own life. That recognition is just the first step. Proper pruning the next and that is one that I have lots to learn about. Accepting the love that is here and continuing to fully let go of any burdens of the past-that is seeing the present clearly and boundlessly. I am so grateful for this daily lift community. Thank you for your contribution today.