Blessings From Trees

Imagine, if you can, living in a world without trees. How desolate such a place would be. But trees are not just a thing of beauty. They have a very strategic role to play in our world. They convert light into energy and "breathe" the carbon dioxide exhaled by man and animals. They use this gas to help manufacture food and in its place give off oxygen which man again breathes. They help clean the air of dust particles, stop erosion and restore deserts. They provide food, drink, lumber, and innumerable other products. Just how they lift enormous amounts of water to their highest branches and manufacture food is still a mystery.

As the poet so eloquently put it:

    I think that I shall never see
      a poem lovely as a tree.
    A tree whose thirsty mouth is pressed
      against the earth's sweet flowering breast;
    A tree that looks at God all day,
      and lifts her leafy arms to pray;
    A tree that may in summer wear
      a nest of robins in her hair;
    Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
      who intimately lives with rain.
    Poems are made by fools like me,
      but only God can make a tree.
                                       – Joyce Kilmer

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Thank you God

for all the beauty

and functionality

you have created

in nature.

May these

ever remind us

of your majesty,

your awesome power,

and your everlasting love.

 

Thank you for hearing and answering my prayerz