I visited the World Trade Center Memorial this past weekend. After the attack on 9-11, a severely damaged tree was found under the rubble.
Against all odds, it survived.
Replanted to another location, it was nurtured to health, and brought back to the World Trade Center Memorial.
It is known as the survival tree.
On Saturday, new buds of hope and healing.
If a tree can survive, can’t you?
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photo credit:
New York City Parks & Recreation
Kathleen Moulton
Today, not a scripture, but a quote worth reading.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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I planted several of these tiny seeds.
I covered them with soil.
I watered them.
I put them in a warm place.
I can’t make the seed grow. But I do my part.
In time, the seeds grow into plants.
And in about 120 days, these tiny seeds will produce.
In comparison to the Universe, you are as small as a seed.
You have something to produce.
Maybe you’ve become discouraged. You’ve lost. You’ve failed. You’ve tried over and over.
You know what? It just means you showed up.
Try new things.
Have courage.
It’s not all up to you. Do your part.
Plant.
Water.
Wait.
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photo credit: Kathleen Moulton
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