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You Can't Leave the Ground Empty: What the Weeds Taught Me About Filling the Right Spaces
by: Sanda ValcuPublished on: 11/08/2026Bare soil never stays bare. What a twelve-foot herb bed I cannot keep weeded taught me about Matthew 12:43-45, quitting habits, and planting something good in the cleared place.
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