You Are a Tree

"That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither--whatever they do prospers."--Psalm 1:3 Sometimes we describe ourselves as trees. When we're thriving, we speak of being  rooted  and  fruitful , in a good season . When we struggle, we might describe ourselves as  withering , cut off from friendship and the world. These ways of describing ourselves matter because they shape the ways we live. But in a world