Hold up a leaf to the sunlight and you see the chartruese yellow-green of Spring. It's the color of life. Inside the cells chlorophyll performs its alchemy--light into food; food into growth. The process is free and ubiquitous--except for these grey climes where we survive during the cold months on the memory of leaves, --on the hope of them.
I aspire to be the person who is "Like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which yields its fruit in season, and whose leaves do not wither..." The key seems to be in the rootedness. If the roots snake into the cool ever life-bringing streams, a tree can grow strong and true for over a hundred years in some species.
Fruit is the final measure of a life. What do we leave behind that we have produced; but more importantly, how have we modeled a human life for those who watch us? The recent film, "Bucket List" shows the different fruits from a life consumed with materialism and ego-centric achievement, on one hand, contrasted with the fruit of a life that has faith, commitment and love for others, and is communal in outlook. The greatest answer to Dawkins' argument is a life, fully human--a life energized by God's spirit, unfolding in fruit-love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
"Always having a green leaf", speaks to the way the tree, or the person, thrives, nurtured by thehidden springs of living water. The world is thirsty for such people. They bring us shelter in stormy times and unexpected shade in the everyday journey.
Be such a person.
This is the first of who knows how many blogs about loving God, loving His world, and loving people. 2/3/2008
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