{"id":4212,"date":"2021-04-29T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2021-04-29T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:41:06","slug":"pay-the-price-to-be-a-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/pay-the-price-to-be-a-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay the price to be a tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(204,204,204);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.<\/span> &#8211; Psalm 1:3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does it mean to be a tree?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be the seed buried in the ground?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to germinate in the dark?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to develop in obscurity?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean for your progress to be hidden where nobody else can see it?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to have nothing but a tiny shoot above ground to show for all the time you spent underground?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be a vulnerable sapling?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to grow surrounded by predators and hostile elements?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to take decades to grow to maturity?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be a great oak tree?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be a shelter for the weary, a refuge for birds to make their nests in, an important member of the ecosystem?<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to be a tree?<\/p>\n<p>What does it cost to be a tree?<\/p>\n<p>What is the tremendous value of being a tree?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the cost, decide to pay the price to be a tree&#8230;to be who you were created to be.<\/p>\n<p>The cost is huge, but the value is tremendous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. &#8211; Psalm 1:3 What does it mean to be a tree? What does it mean to be the seed buried in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/pay-the-price-to-be-a-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pay the price to be a tree&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}