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How to Turn a Seed into a Tree - By Andrian Purnama

This is a comment given by my best friend :)

My take … we always go out to water our gardens …

But there’s a choice on trees which we have to nurture.

We may have gotten used to the fruit of worry tree, hate tree, discord tree, stress tree.
That we think that’s the norm, so we nurture it…

While the good tree, … the fruit are so good, but we feel we don’t deserve it, … or it’s normal to enjoy the fruit once in a while
We enjoy the fruit only once in a while, because we think it’s too hard to nurture the tree…
We need to manure the tree with faith and letting go .. we need to manure the tree with trust in God …
We need to manure it in being open to God … which we thought open the way to hurt …
We need to cut down the old trees … which … may hurt …
In the farm correlation it’s like using “pupuk kandang” … we think it’s hard … but it’s necessary
In the end .. we CAN’T do it …

But in the end .. the great gardener will do it anyway …

Cutting down the other trees … so will put us in the sun …
We are desperate we tried to re plant the tree … but we can’t …

The good trees … we can do so much in trying to nurture …
But actually what we can do is that much only, …

The great gardener will do it ….
Then you can eat the fruit

Then you can eat the fruit…. DAILY

Andrian

Posted: April 18th, 2008 under Sharing.
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How to Turn a Seed into a Tree?

I woke up at 5am this morning with a thought about a tree.
A tree??? Yes… A tree.
Weird? Yes, I felt weird this morning.The question was on my mind, how to turn a seed into a beautiful, strong and fruitful tree?

Half asleep… I thought slowly, for example an apple tree… I should plant the seed in the right soil, nurture it - make sure it gets enough water, sunshine and the right care… And it needs a process and time to grow… Eventually it will grow bigger, with strong roots, shady, and fruitful. It will survive in any season and weather, even the stormy one, it can cover the human to rest under the tree - from the heat or rain, and it gives fruits for eat.

And if I don’t put it on the right soil, it might not grow, or grow in suffer, not strong enough to stand the stormy weather.

If I don’t give it enough water, and take care of it in the right way (treating it as an apple tree, instead of cactus), the it might not grow, or grow in suffer, not strong enough to stand the stormy weather.

What about if I take care of it, nurture it in the beginning, and neglect/ignore it after I see it growing? It might be dying and die eventually, and will not be able to survive for the next season.

As simple as that… That’s the lesson that I learn from a nature. That thought brought me to think about my life and whether I have nurture the seeds (love, dreams, work, etc.) In my life.

Same with our lives, if we don’t nurture it with the right way, we will never reach our dreams and get what we wants.

When I want to reach my dream, I should take care of it with the right way (might be different way for each dreams), nurture it… With patience, walk in time and let the dream become bigger and true in my life, or else it will die and will only be a dream, and never come true.

When I put a seed of love, I should take care of it, nurture it - with the right way (maybe through a communication, understanding, listening, respect, cares, trust, etc.) - effort to grow it, and as the time goes by, it will prove and show a true love… Or else it will die, and forgotten by the end.

Posted: April 18th, 2008 under Sharing.
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