We each have a choice about our life...we can be like a highly polished acorn or we can be like a mighty oak.
The shiny acorn learns some spiritual principles. Relearns them. Quotes them. Teaches them to others. Its mouth moves faster than a speeding bullet with the exactly right spiritual principle to apply to anybody's problem any time.
We acorns who are highly polished with a shiny gloss look good and sound better!
Then comes the day we have a need to apply a spiritual principle to our own bleeding heart. We think pretty thoughts, we say high-flown platitudes...all the things we've been preaching for years. We come up empty, and we know fear.
That acorn, opened, has insides that are fallow from non-use. There is no God there.
The mighty oak learns spiritual principles. Uses those spiritual principles in every day life. We oaks never stop learning spiritual principles because the more we use them, the deeper their roots go into our soul. Meanings change, guiding us deeper to a higher level. Others benefit from our spiritual growth without our ever being aware of that.
We mighty oaks grow ever stronger...maybe misshapen to the naked eye, a tish thick around the middle, a little top heavy, but we're growing within and without. With never a conscious thought (for that's God's part), we're releasing acorns regularly to take root and grow.
There is the source of peace, love and joy...living for others, seeing others take root and grow. Life is all about others, and God is there.
Thank you.
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