I have been woken by a sleeping sneeze...
Spring is 4 days old...and it's COLD...
I lie in bed listening to the soft soaking rain...the kind of rain that brings life...
like only the rain can... it has been falling for hours now...there's no anger there...
only peace...
I am compelled to pray...
I pray for those hurting right now...
I feel their sadness too...
Two mothers have had to say goodbye to children...
Children have mothers no more...
I don't know which is more tragic to me :(
As i pray i see a tree in my minds eye...
And i do mean a tree people...
The kind that takes your breath away...
A thick strong unmovable base that is the start of the tree we see...
Branches reaching up towards the blue...covered in...
Young fresh green leaves...lots of them...Spring leaves i'll call them...
As i watch i see a limb pruned away and there is loss...
and it's had to bare...
Our life is like a tree i think to myself...
We start out small...really really small...
and then we grow...
it takes time...
we grow in both directions...up and down...
We bud and burst...
Blossom even...
Other times...
Our leaved change colour...dry up...
An Autumn wind rushes through our branches...
and just like that we are bare....
naked for all to see...
dormant...
The hard times never last though...
Time really does heal...
Soon we are being stretched... and we grow...
hard times have a way of doing that don't you think...
Little things like ants and termites...are daily annoyances...
Then we loose a limb...
Now that's sore...
We feel that right down to our roots...
And for a minute our tree is in jeopardy...
Healing Happens
And birds visit and sit for a while on our branches...
Rains pass through...
Winds do too...
High up there where no man can see without taking a lot of trouble...
There is new life in our tree...eggs in an untidy nest have hatched...
and there is work to do...
More of the same...
We grow...
We smile...
We cry...
We help...
We wait...
We give...
We get...
We celebrate...
We mourn...
We live and we learn...
