Olive Tree

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Remembering

Today marks the anniversary of  a day of tears for me.  A source of daily love, friendship, and help  that I'd had for many years was taken to do those very things somewhere else.  I had come to rely on those things, a result of many years of hard work.  I believed I had earned them...  Not so.

My devotional that day spoke of the cutting down of one of the great cedars of Lebanon; a tree that had been a source of beauty, shade and repose for many. Then in a matter of hours, the steady work of an axe took the tree, leaving but a stump.

But the story doesn't end there.  That great tree was taken to another place, where it underwent preparation and eventually became a glorious polished beam in the temple of God.

Now, I just need to wait and trust God to show how the loss of that tree is going to benefit the remaining trees in the forest...

TV~
Jesus replied, "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand."  [John 13:7]


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