Little Tree

Do you ever feel like this little tree?

Standing at the edge of the angry waters ... being toppled by its force ... over and over again.

I feel like this tree.  A lot.  The waters of life are rushing by and pushing me over.  Struggles internally, with health, with relationships, financially ... you name it.  I'm bouncing up and down from one issue to another and all I really want to do is stay down and out of the way until the raging waters have passed.

While the little tree is symbolic of my current state of being, this slightly larger tree is where I wish I was ... where I should be.

Again, it's only slightly larger in size, but obviously much stronger and so much more steady and able to take on those same raging waters.  Much further out in the water ... smack in the middle of the rush ... yet barely moving in all the surrounding chaos.

The waters are ever-changing.  Heck, so am I.  But my God is not.  I need to remember to stay firmly rooted in His rock no matter what the world around me is doing.  The rains will end and the rapids will subside and hopefully I will still be upright with new growth to show for it.  Until then, I'll just keep holding on tight and getting back up and learning the ways of that steady tree.