CRUCIBLE OF LIFE

Katherine May, author wrote:
“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximizing scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible. (From: ‘Wintering’)

“There are four things on earth that are small but unusually wise:
Ants—they aren’t strong,
but they store up food all summer.
Hyraxes (rock badgers)—they aren’t powerful,
but they make their homes among the rocks.
Locusts—they have no king,
but they march in formation.
Lizards—they are easy to catch,
but they are found even in kings’ palaces.”
(Proverbs 30:24-26)

Every living thing must go through change and formation to become stronger and better on the other side of change. If we resist this preparation (the crucible) and change we just go along as boring and dying. By nature we are supposed to bloom and form new growth and fruit.

“A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit.” Jesus