Thriving Trees

The arctic does not boast spectacular trees, though there is beauty to be appreciated by the eager explorer.

I took Sam for a long walk on a trail new to us and found a naturally beautiful grove of trees, larger in size than the rest of town. I wondered what made them so healthy and long-lived and realized that the park had been set aside many years ago, that it was recipient to the warm, moist sea breeze and western sun and sheltered from the cold, drying mountain air that sweeps the rest of the town. They had a chance to put down roots and thrive.

It reminded me of Psalm 1...
1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked will perish.

I think this tree is still deciding on its future.