I just about fell out of my chair when I looked out the window and saw this tree. You see for the past few weeks I've been obsessing a little...imagine that:) Our poor tree in the front yard looked dead. Every other tree in the neighborhood was in full bloom and ours had nada. I had already mentally cut the thing down and replanted something else in it's spot...then one day it surprised me and voila, IT'S ALIVE. I may sound like a weirdo, but I almost cried. You see that is such an example to me. God uses things like this to teach me a lesson. We don't always know what is going on behind the scenes. What may appear to be "dead" in our lives may only be in a holding pattern or in hibernation.
I just want to sing from the rooftop...
don't give up, keep hoping and someday soon your leaves (dreams, vision, God's plan and purpose etc...)