I’ve found myself walking a lot these days.  Maybe you have, too.   A park close to my house has become my daily destination.  While it’s not a particularly large park, woven throughout the fields and play area is a loop with twists and turns equating to a mile.  The loop starts at a bridge and ends there as well.  Once you are on the path, you stay on the path, or so I thought. The park is usually full of people walking together.  Small and large groups of men and women enjoy each other’s company as they follow the path.  I am no different as I am usually found walking with a friend.  Almost in sync we walk in line with the others.  We are all following each other as we all follow the path. In this new season we are living, the path looks different as fewer people walk at the park.  There are no longer large groups of people to follow and these days I am …

Things look a lot different for all of us as we have entered this new season we are living today.  Our schedules, our routines and our places have experienced significant change.  We are missing the days of going to church, going to coffee, really just going anywhere. In navigating these changes in my personal life, I went back to the psalms and decided to read a psalm every day. Psalm 1 is an amazing passage that refers to a tree that is planted by rivers of water.  The tree gets what it needs from the place where it is planted and yields the fruit it was intended to yield as it grows in that place. We know that this psalm is referring to being spiritually planted, digging our roots deep into the soil and soaking up the rivers of living water to keep us bearing spiritual fruit in its season, but it made me start to think.   What happens to a tree when …