The Life of a Tree
The tree of life is open and wanting and transformational. We lose old habits and sprout new ones like buds forming on our branches. We seek the sun and it’s warmth as the leaves on a tree sway towards the sun. We suffer like a tree when we lose our branches because of an exceptionally strong wind or a disease that withers away part of our human trees. Trees are eternal until we cut them down. Our souls are eternal like the tree. Each one of us is different just as each tree is different. The amount of sunlight, love and pruning of a tree equal the amount of sunlight, love and pruning of our souls. Cutting off the parts that no longer serve us and making the parts that remain stronger. The oldest part of the tree is the wild and woolly part at the top where it takes more than a mortal man to tame, just as the oldest part of a person is that part which he has carried since he was a child and is usually the hardest to...