Now, listen up, while I tell you

what I have lately noticed;

it is a common, simple thought

that within your busy, important day

you might just possibly have missed.

Look at a tree, almost any tree.

Stop what you’re doing, be still and look.

Are you watching how it grows?

Somehow that sprawling chunk of wood

wisely knows to extend its arms to the sun

and let in the light, the tree’s source of life.

Hm-m-m, do you possibly believe,

can you take a moment to understand

that here is a truth we can receive?

I said be still.  Think a minute now.

Do we need to reach and embrace the light?

Or, is it that sadly, just maybe,

we might not know

what it is that we ought,

we should –

Oh, my goodness gracious!

Are we not as smart as a block of wood?