Deep Roots

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I live on the prairie. It’s mostly flat and without trees, but we have a stand of spruce and pine on one bank of the big coulee, and on a hot summer day, a walk in the forest is a refreshing treat. I can feel the temperature fall as I make my way down the game trails, beneath the towering spruce. Sometimes, I lie down on the springy moss, and breath in the fresh cool forest air.

Today, I went for a walk in our ‘forest.’ It wasn’t warm enough to lie on the moss, but I enjoyed the fresh scent of the pine and spruce.

After dodging the snow and ice on the trail,

I found my favourite tree.

What determination it has, to send out roots in search of soil, nutrients, and precious water. On this rocky hillside, fertile soil is very hard to find. Still the tree does not give up; it continues to seek.

When I looked at these roots, I thought about my own ‘rooting process’.

Col 2:6 says, “So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him.”

We know that trees with deep roots survive years of drought. They stand firm against strong winds, and they produce fruit.

Am I as relentless as that tree in the forest in finding the nutrients I need? Do I want to be deep-rooted? Or do my roots wither and die for lack of growing medium.

Thank you, Father, that your word says we can be ‘rooted and established in love’. Help us to put down deep roots, in You.