Five Minute Friday - Root

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One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

the root of the problem

put down roots

get back to your roots

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Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots. ~Rumi

Just a bit of background - I work at a nursery, the kind that grows trees. I work in the office and don't pretend to know anything much about trees or plants in general. That said, this little bit of advice the owner of the business gave the staff one day stuck with me, and I recalled it when I saw this week's prompt. He was instructing the guys about the proper depth for planting a young tree and said that most people want to put that root ball deep into the pot and make sure that the soil is well packed so that the tree is "deep enough" and doesn't tip. But in order for the tree to be stable and grow up strong, the roots must grow down, so you have to leave room for that to happen.

We need to leave room in our lives and in the lives of those around us for our roots to grow down deep. Don't hunker down and hide under the soil where there's no room to put down roots and get firmly established. Don't stay shallow and just at the surface, with roots that spread out but don't dig deep for endurance and nourishment.

Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit. ~Michael Beckwith

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. 

~Colossians 2:6-7~

They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.

~Jeremiah 17:8~

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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. ~Theodore Roethke

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This post is linked at Five Minute Friday for the word prompt "Root".

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