We can not always see the setbacks and losses that will come our way. Not until it is too late sometimes. There are also times we may not be able to do anything to stop it. This willow tree in my back yard has been damaged beyond saving. Every one of its branches was snapped during an ice storm this last month. It is the only one on the property, so it will be missed. There was nothing we could have done to save it. I listened to each crack and thud with tight shoulders, hoping that it wouldn’t crash through the roof. I did not see it was almost all from that one tree until the next morning.
It will be a lot of work to clean up the fallen limbs and we will end up using it for fire fuel eventually. The space will go to a storage building that we desperately need. In this way I am able to see the positives of the changing landscape. You may think this is awfully quick to get over the loss of one of my favorite trees. It may be, but it has not been very healthy the last few years and I knew it was time for it to go.
This is something I have gotten accustomed to, living in a forest. The forest is alive, and its branches, and trees come down all the time. I mean all the time. You know how when you keep loosing hair and you wonder how you have so much left? That’s like a forest. always changing, and always growing.
I take it as a life lesson and try to apply it to my life. What is no longer of use, let it drop off. The thing you get instead may be better for you.