Well, the raspberries are pruned and tomorrow I will have another wonderful day pruning the blackberries. They take longer so one day won’t be enough. That is a blessing unto itself in that I have more to do outside keeping me “in the gardens of inspiration”. Besides all of this, tomorrow is March 1st and I’ve always called this day the first day of Spring. At this point in every winter I’m too ready for Spring so I just start my own on the 1st rather than the 21st.

As I journaled this morning I was writing to Jesus about yesterday’s topic: thorn in the flesh. Jesus brought to mind that the thorn is in the “flesh”. We naturally fight any of our battles first and foremost from our own flesh trying to be more disciplined, more structured, more boundaries, etc. As I was writing all of this Jesus reminded me that His Gift to us is The Holy SPIRIT. He said our battleground is flesh, but the Warrior He provides us is SPIRIT for the battle must be fought in Spirit or we will lose for Satan himself is spirit and our flesh cannot win over spirit.

I have become critically aware of this confusion I’ve lived with all of my life. Our tools God provides us when we ask Jesus into our lives are tools of the Spirit. Things like Faith, Trust, Belief. God gives us things to do in our flesh but they aren’t tools to fight with. They are tools like: surrender, confess, pray, worship, be humble, sing. I write this and wonder why I’ve battled so long?? It just goes to show that our spiritual eyes keep getting more open the longer we live and allow Jesus to be our TEACHER.