Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” -Herman Hesse
A mighty tree is as welcoming as a treasured friend, offering shade and inviting us to relax and breathe in natures goodness. When we surrender our scurrying, to accomplish those "oh so important tasks", space opens for us to right ourselves.
Permission is what a mighty tree offers… and many hidden gifts, cleansing the air we breathe, sharing the lap of our Mother to rest upon, whispering with a gentle sway what we all hope to know, give and receive.
Appealing to playfulness, trees beckon children to swing from limbs, create lookout towers and build secret fortresses in the sky.
Holders of ancient sacred stories, trees carry a wealth of history passed on through the ages. To this day, people share their hopes and dreams in prayers written upon ribbons and tied to her branches, offered in a Holy hallelujah or plea for help when in the depths of despair.
Siddhartha comes to mind, a young man who refused to be shielded from human suffering and received the wisdom of enlightenment as he sat under a Bodhi tree.
There is magnificent beauty revealed in the essence of a tree, although seemingly separate, we too are joined by the root of our being; in Love.
Liz Sorensen Wessel
Watercolor by ~liz
