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Play Music Fire & Rain
In the midst
of the garden of Eden was the Tree of Life. Adam and Eve were
to live, never
know death. But with that wonderful tree came another, the Tree
of Knowledge of good and Evil. The fruit of this tree took away
from man the gift of not knowing death.
Death was not an evil, but to have knowledge meant to know sorrow
as well as happiness. It meant man now would know the different
emotions that were the knowledge. When we have the joy of knowing
life, we have the sorrow of knowing that the life may end.
After moving to Arkansas in 1996, I planted a willow sapling.
I nurtured it and cared for the tree to watch it grow. I decided
on a willow because it was a memory of my childhood. A large willow
grew in our back yard and I always thought of it as my refuge,
my castle, my secret place. The sapling weathered storms, and
came back stronger after each one. I thought to myself that this
was the real proof, that good comes from bad.
When you lose a loved one, planting a tree or flower that will
renew itself in the spring, and grow, reminds you of the person
and the special memory of them.
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Plant a tree of love and memory, and you will have a forest of kindness.