
The breath of springtime on a bench
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“The Tree” was a beautiful addition to my daughter’s yard. In the springtime it was full of beautiful pink flowers, in the summer it provided welcome shade from the hot sun, and it’s big branch held a swing for the kids. But…over the years, with all the Oregon rain, it began to bend and break, it’s roots just couldn’t hold on any longer and finally last winter during a bad storm it fell. Now, all that is left of it is pictures, a sweet memory, firewood and it’s stump, where one green shoot is now growing up, perhaps to be it’s replacement.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light Ephesians 5:8 NKJV

All life has purpose. Sometimes the purpose is clear, sometimes it is not.
But all life does have a purpose.
“I’m not afraid… I was BORN for this!” —Joan of Arc