by Josh Pedersen
Have you ever suffered loss? Have you endured something being taken or removed from you that was not any choice of your own? Have you ever experienced the painful cutting and removal of a part of yourself through a situation that is totally out of your control?
I can’t help but think that, if you were a plant, that is exactly what it is like to be “pruned”. I imagine for a plant, it is pretty painful to have the gardener or “vinedresser” come with a knife and cut you… remove a piece of you and take it away. Pruning is a painful cutting and removal of something that the plant itself has zero control or say in.
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