Picture this:
A tall deciduous tree, like an oak or maple tree. . . it is winter with gray sky and wind and threatening clouds. The tree has leaves falling from its branches by the hundreds. The wind is taking them away. The tree’s top branches are not bending, despite the wind that is obviously bending other trees that have not let go of their leaves. Those trees look like they will fall.
Down at the base of the tree and into the ground where the roots are is a deep, powerful, radiant Light. The roots are deeply planted in that Light and soil. We can see the roots as if the tree-scene is in a glass terrarium. The glow is only seen around the roots of the tree that let go of its leaves. The other trees have barely enough roots to be covered in soil. No glow at all. But they have all their leaves. Some are still partly green, as those trees still force energy into keeping them green and bound to them.
Interpretation:
We are trees. Leaves are all that we want and give our energy to – kids, spouses, family, financial goals, education, talents, dreams, standard of living, politics, past memories, future plans, emotional states such as depression, intoxications, approval, acceptance, physical painlessness, abilities, comforts- in short, life the way we want it. When we change the direction of our energy, then we let go of our leaves and focus on our roots. We use the energy of desire to drive and lengthen our roots into the soil of our Creator. Then we encounter the power of His Love and Life. We suck it up and live, despite the cold, stormy winter that kills the other trees which refused to let their leaves go.
Deciduous trees that are caught in unexpected cold weather literally freeze to death or are blown over.
Let go of the things of earth life and put all energy into Papa. Then we live and reproduce. The leaves that we refuse to let go of will destroy us.
- Ephesians 3:17b And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. . .