There are seasons in life when we look at ourselves and feel a quiet ache. It’s an awareness that something within us is undernourished. We sense the gap between who we are today and the vital, expansive person we somehow know were meant to become. The bridge to cross and close the gap is metaphysics; Christian metaphysics in particular.
In the early days of my transition from traditional religious frameworks into Christian metaphysical understanding, an image came to me:
A tree—really more of a bush—stood before me with a long, bare trunk. Its branches were mostly empty, save for a few tired leaves clinging to the memory of a lush season that had passed.
Around its base, weeds tangled deep into the soil.
No matter how much potential the tree carried, it couldn’t flourish.
It wasn’t weak; it was starved.
The soil meant to nourish it had been overtaken by what didn’t belong there.
Then a lover of trees came.
He remembered the tree not as it was, but as it could be—green, full, abundant.
He plowed the hardened ground, tore out the weeds, and opened the soil again to light and moisture.
Almost overnight, the tree awakened.
It drank in what it had been missing, and the transformation was startling.
Once the weeds were gone, its potential unfolded with almost effortless speed.
And then something remarkable happened.
The tree didn’t just return to life—
it propagated more trees of equal vitality.
Abundance gave birth to more abundance.
Your Life Is a Harvest
In metaphysical terms, the “tree” is your consciousness—your inner creative center.
The “soil” is your mental and emotional environment.
The “weeds” are limiting beliefs, outdated ideas, and habitual patterns that choke possibility.
So ask yourself:
How’s your current harvest?
Do the results you see in your life reflect the highest version of yourself?
If so—wonderful.
If not—wonderful . . . to know!
Because anything that isn’t aligned with your highest good can change. And most often we need to see it correctly to change it.
Check the Soil
Growth never begins with the fruit.
It begins with the soil.
- Are your thoughts nourishing or depleting you?
- Are your beliefs expansive or restrictive?
- Are your emotional habits supporting your evolution or stunting it?
Weeds often grow silently.
They don’t announce themselves.
They simply take up space and crowd out what should thrive.
Identifying Your Weeds
Incidentally, metaphysics deals with our intangible and unseen realities. The personal sense of our ‘metaphysics of self’ are often subtly expressed through the operational processes that lie beneath our conscious awareness. Specifically, they are principles that shape our thoughts, and our thoughts subsequently shape our moods and behaviors. In fact, they are there for all of us, recognized or not, but they’re not always accurate or best for us. When they are misaligned and debilitating, they are weeds choking our growth. They often hide within our beliefs and assumptions. Part of our growth trajectory and spiritual unfolding is to discover them, scrutinize them, and when needed, to change them.
Here are some questions that reveal them:
- Does this belief move me toward my best self, or away from it?
- Is this habit aligned with my future, or tied to my past?
- Does this thought expand my spirit, or shrink it?
Weeds are anything that choke your sense of possibility.
Fear.
Old religious guilt.
Self-doubt.
People-pleasing.
Unquestioned assumptions about who you “are allowed” to be.
Once you identify them, you can uproot them.
Clearing the Ground
Our metaphysical weeds are removed the same way inner transformation happens:
- Conscious awareness
- Deliberate choice
- Consistent, gentle correction
- Alignment with truth, not habit
In New Thought language, this is renewing the mind.
In metaphysical Christianity, it is plowing up the fallow ground of consciousness.
In the Law of Attraction, it is releasing resistance so that natural well-being can flow again.
Once you clear the inner space, your consciousness responds quickly—sometimes startlingly so.
It’s not that growth becomes “possible.”
It becomes inevitable.
What Must Happen Next?
Ask yourself:
What’s one weed I can uproot today?
What’s one nourishing practice I can add to my soil?
What is one inspired step toward the version of me I already know exists?
Momentum begins the moment you decide that growth isn’t just desirable—
it’s natural.
It’s who you are.
Just like the tree, your life is ready to flourish the moment you make room for nourishment again.
Clear the weeds.
Open the soil.
Let your consciousness drink deeply.
And watch how quickly the harvest begins to change.
The function of practical Christian metaphysis serves as the catalyst for real lasting, soul satisfying change, and it’s within your reach. It’s all on inside!
