365 Project Day 307: Oh, the Trees

Canon 5D Mark ll 100 2.8 macro, 2.8 aperture, 1/125 shutter, 100 ISO

I want to be more like the trees.

How I love them. They stand like warriors, stalwart and true around our home. The white oaks with their textured bark, the red maples with leaves that lick like hungry flames against the azure autumn sky, the hickories gilded and gleaming in brilliant yellows. This is their glory season. Soon their bare branches will send cracks against the winter grays and whites, looking more ominous and less friendly. But I know. They are steadfast and true, waiting, holding in the deepest of roots the happy joys of spring.

But for now, it is the glory season for the trees. Autumn has pulled them into a song and dance that has enchanted us all.  As they release the last of their temporal glories to the wind, bowing in submission to their Maker, I am in awe. I watch how they let go, leaves falling like stars to the earth, and I want to be more like them.

I want to open my hands too, letting go of whatever glory I seek to hold. Then I can be refilled, showered anew in the love and life of my Maker.

Taking lessons from the trees.

Isaiah 55:12 ~”You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.”