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Good morning…

It happened again. One message miraculously seeped into another.

Yesterday’s post ended with this wisdom: “As our self-protective shell comes completely undone, everything, everything changes.” I pushed “send” on our blog then immediately opened a new email containing the poem below. It’s as if the Holy Spirit had more to share with us about the “seed” analogy and the true self gradually maturing in our soul.

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Whenever you see a tree by PADMA VENKATRAMAN

Think
how many long years
this tree waited as a seed
for an animal or bird or wind or rain
to maybe carry it to maybe the right spot
where again it waited months for seasons to change
until time and temperature were fine enough to coax it
to swell and burst its hard shell so it could send slender roots
to clutch at grains of soil and let tender shoots reach toward the sun
Think how many decades or centuries it thickened and climbed and grew
taller and deeper never knowing if it would find enough water or light
or when conditions would be right so it could keep on spreading leaves
adding blossoms and dancing
Next time
you see
a tree
think
how
much
hope
it holds

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I love how God slowly, surely, seamlessly sows a harvest of hope within you, within me, and within every tree. Do we have eyes to see?

Look! The farmer knows how to wait patiently for the land to produce vegetables and fruits. He cannot harvest a freshly planted seed. Instead, he waits for the early and the late showers to nourish the soil. You need this same kind of patience (James 5:7-8a, VOICE).

Our own spiritual growth needs this same kind of patience. We cannot harvest an unripe seed. We need to wait for seasons to change, for heavenly showers to nourish our soul. We need to wait for our true self to swell and burst, to root and shoot, to thicken and climb, to spread, blossom, dance. Quietly becoming God’s abundant harvest, think how much hope we collectively hold.

…Sue…

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