If you think about it, a clearing is an appropriate illustration for personal transformation or Intentional Living. That requires removing any obstacles and constraints that may be impeding our progress, in effect creating a clearing. By creating a clearing a new viewpoint is available for one s life. Without a clearing, our vision is obscured or blinded. There is no space to create something new when trees, shrubs or in the case of personal transformation, when our current attitudes and behaviors prevent the growth of a new life or new beginning.
Space has to be created in order to fill it with something new.
To create a garden, you must first clear an area, till the soil, and then plant the seeds. If you just throw seeds on the ground without preparing it, your garden will not be all that it can be. In fact you could go very hungry. The same happens with Intentional Living. If you try to apply the principles of a transformed life without clearing space for it to grow, the old life will overtake the new seeds and snuff it out.