"Did you measure to attain your height?
Did you use geometry to radiate your limbs?
Did you lament storm-torn branches?
Did you inventory your leaves for the sun?
You did none of these things, yet man in his cleverness
Cannot match your perfection."
I ought to pray, "Dear God, make me as still and wise and knowing and created as a tree." The trees seem to know so well that they are God's creatures that they stay rooted and alive far longer than any of us can even imagine. May I learn from these and other aspects of creation how to be less sinful, more whole--rooted in God's wisdom and growing in His grace.
Did you use geometry to radiate your limbs?
Did you lament storm-torn branches?
Did you inventory your leaves for the sun?
You did none of these things, yet man in his cleverness
Cannot match your perfection."
I ought to pray, "Dear God, make me as still and wise and knowing and created as a tree." The trees seem to know so well that they are God's creatures that they stay rooted and alive far longer than any of us can even imagine. May I learn from these and other aspects of creation how to be less sinful, more whole--rooted in God's wisdom and growing in His grace.
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