May 17
Psalm 1
The focus on creation continues in this week’s focusscripture. We concentrate on the image of the just person
as a tree. These trees are “planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do
not wither” (verse 3). Where do we plant ourselves so
that we too might understand God’s wisdom and love
and bear fruit? Who are the teachers who nourish us
and keep our leaves from withering? How might we
nourish others?
This week, take time to look at the trees around you. See
each one of them as a part of God’s creation and a symbol
of how we might flourish. Keep that image in front of you
by drawing a tree in your journal, or printing a picture
of a tree from the Internet and hanging it on the wall, or
making a tree your screen saver.
Copyright © Wood Lake Publishing Inc. 2014 Seasons of the Spirit™ SeasonsFUSION Lent • Easter 2015, p.21-22
