This is the first thing I ever wrote in my paper journal back in 1990. This was long before I had a computer….it was before most people had computers in their homes. I was sitting and reading my bible and contemplating a scripture and I looked out the back door of the house and saw these 2 trees side by side 1 small tree, and 1 big tree. The Lord just kind of laid this on my heart as I thought about these 2 trees.
In a forest is 2 trees 1 a sapling and 1 a fuller grown tree. The small tree looks to the grown tree and thinks, “I got everything in me to make me the same as the big tree. I have bark, leaves, roots ect. So why envy the big tree because I am just like him only not as big. I just need watered and time to grow. We plant, water, and reap, but God gives the increase. I can’t grow like I want or I would make myself like the big tree instantly. Why would I do that? Answer is Envy. If I got rid of envy I wouldn’t want to be wanting all the time to be like the big tree. I would enjoy growing, patience, learning and how to accept patience and enjoy it.
