Thanks, and no I won’t stay away.
Your thread has the soul food we all need, God gives us beauty and we don’t take time to find it, many times.
Thank you for the beauty you create, stay safe and happy.
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In the life of trees, one key to survival is having more roots than shoots. In his book Oak: The Frame of Civilization,, author William Bryant Logan says, If a tree puts on a lot of top growth and few roots, it is liable to be weak-wooded and short-lived. . . . If a tree puts down a great deal of roots and adds shoots more slowly, however, it is liable to be long-lived and more resistant to stress and strain.
People and organizations can be like trees. The rise to prominence is exhilarating, but anything that puts up shoots faster than it puts down roots is fragile and in danger of breaking, falling, or dying.
Jesus used a similar analogy in His parable of the sower. People who hear the Word and receive it joyfully are like seed sown on stony places; they spring up quickly but endure only a short time because they have no roots (Matt. 13:6,20-21).
Roots arent at all glamorous, but they are the source of our strength. If our roots go deep in the knowledge of God (Jer. 9:24) and our lives are hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3), well be strong, resistant to blight, and more likely to survive the storms of adversity.
How deep are your roots?
I'm glad you'll still visit, and honestly, I understand about the pings to the huge graphics. It's tough when you can't open your comment page because it's so full of graphics - some of them really big ones. I had to ask to be taken off the ping list of a couple of daily threads because there were so many graphics in the main ping.
(I copied your post so the others who post Amy's daily welcomes could see how much you enjoy their offerings, too)
Thank you, granny.