November
I am on my stillness walk and it's a beautiful afternoon. It is so quiet and calm. And empty. I only see a person or two here and there. I've been walking around looking at all the trees. And thinking about their form. Completely devoid of leaves. You can see what they really look like without the leaves. All those leaves are so beautiful and they fluff out the tree so wonderfully. It hides the shape of the tree. But when fall comes and then winter and the coldness turn the trees towards their winter state, the leaves are all gone and so you can see the true form of the tree. Wow! You can see where trees are misshapen You can see where the branches are mess a chaotic mess. You can see where the trees need to be trimmed where they need to be pruned where a group of trees need to be thinned out. Wow.
And this is in the garden of love and the kingdom of love. We live I live in the kingdom of love I am a tree in the kingdom of love. In fact God showed me that great big giant tree where he said look at this tree this is the kingdom of love. Today he said this tree is you. Oh is so beautiful and tall even shorn of its leaves. But down at the bottom there's just like this mess branches. And I I think how much I look at that mess of branches and I say oh what a mess I am instead of standing back and looking at the tree and how beautiful it is That's me the whole thing - not just that mess of branches. He wants to prune away those twisted messy dead curving down branches. So my tree can even grow stronger bigger taller more powerful and my branches all of them can reach up even higher and higher to God. That's why he allows us to see the true shape of our self through hardship and suffering. So we'll let him prune us.
Oh thank you father Thank you thank you father Thank you for showing this to me. All may I always be willing to be pruned.