Randall K. Majorhead
10-06-2003, 11:51 AM
Across the street is a Maple tree. A simple maple tree that I have watched grow from a sapling. It is really well formed with a nice rounded shape that defies belief in its perfection. Even in the storm it was unaffected, only losing a small amount of foilage to the wind.
I love to look at this tree not just because it has beauty and changing colors with the seasons but that I have learned great lessons from this tree and it gives always the same answer without fail.
When I am hurting from my liver illness, often to the point of a total exhaustion this simple tree shows me what to do, and how to get through it.
I ask it what can I do, is this what life comes down to? And it always has told me...
That if you have your roots firmly planted in the Heart of the Creator, nothing will continue in this life without an ending in peaceful rest and nothing can deter you from completing what it is you were mean to do here if you so choose. That by staying rooted in the Creator will see those times of drought pass and rain will eventually fall and then the sunlight to warm and give life.
And should it be that we must move into the next life, then it is only so that we can allow new life to have its chance at being and we should rather be poud of any opportunities we have had to nurture those we truely love. That it is best for us to grow well so that we may povide fertile ground for those coming after us.
For our actions and deeds and how we grow, determines the amount of good soil we will be able to gve our children. If we don't grow well or strong, then our life has been wasted and we don't give the young the topsoil they need to grow and mature and surpass us. We yeild them no or little shade in times when the "saplings" of ours need to be cooled and rested.
So when things look down, find a tree. Ask it where do I turn and what do I do?
It can answer you! The trees already have!
They all point in the right direction....
UP.
Rambling on In Peace, Randall K.
I love to look at this tree not just because it has beauty and changing colors with the seasons but that I have learned great lessons from this tree and it gives always the same answer without fail.
When I am hurting from my liver illness, often to the point of a total exhaustion this simple tree shows me what to do, and how to get through it.
I ask it what can I do, is this what life comes down to? And it always has told me...
That if you have your roots firmly planted in the Heart of the Creator, nothing will continue in this life without an ending in peaceful rest and nothing can deter you from completing what it is you were mean to do here if you so choose. That by staying rooted in the Creator will see those times of drought pass and rain will eventually fall and then the sunlight to warm and give life.
And should it be that we must move into the next life, then it is only so that we can allow new life to have its chance at being and we should rather be poud of any opportunities we have had to nurture those we truely love. That it is best for us to grow well so that we may povide fertile ground for those coming after us.
For our actions and deeds and how we grow, determines the amount of good soil we will be able to gve our children. If we don't grow well or strong, then our life has been wasted and we don't give the young the topsoil they need to grow and mature and surpass us. We yeild them no or little shade in times when the "saplings" of ours need to be cooled and rested.
So when things look down, find a tree. Ask it where do I turn and what do I do?
It can answer you! The trees already have!
They all point in the right direction....
UP.
Rambling on In Peace, Randall K.