A Flourishing Root System
What are you grounded in?
What do you feed your soul?
Do you have what it takes to bear good fruit
when the harvest approaches to unfold?
What shows on the outside begins from within
prune to remove the elements that block your growth.
If you feed your spirit with hate
animosity, jealousy, envy and greed
so too shall your soul grow and flourish in these things.
If your spirit is fed with love
sharing, giving, compassion and truth
so too shall your soul be blessed
to grow and flourish in these things.
What you feed yourself with
will be passed on to your offspring
and the legacy continues
growing and flourishing in these things.
From afar
regal and towering
a century year old oak tree stands
swooping branches and sprawling limbs
enduring years of hurricanes, tornados and drought.
What’s the fate of a tree so old
weakening to finally succumb to the elements
yet looking around
at the tender young seedlings underneath
revealing the next generation to carry on.
A seed planted on solid fertile ground
can germinate to shelter, heal or bond.
The tainted seed can debilitate a country
breakup a family
destroy a community
or simply drive you crazy.
A weed will rob nearby energy sources
strengthening its root system
a nuisance multiplying like wild fire
an infestation that needs extermination.
Lack of a good healthy root system
breeds a poison with deadly consequences.
A seed once planted
should not be abandoned
snaking its way in contaminated darkness
give it water and nutrients
fertilize with goodness and understanding
be proud of the abundance that you sow.
“He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
- Jeremiah 17:8 (NIV)
This poem was published in the book "Diversities of Gifts: Same Spirit" in 2009.
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