A Short Parable: The Lost Tree

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This is a short story about a person who cut down the tree that provided the entrance for them to their own forest of God's plentiful love. We must keep our own tree growing by connecting to other trees. We all live within the same soil of God's love. A tree stood alone at the entrance to the mighty forest. Perhaps, all the other trees had been cut from around it, but this one somehow still had managed to survive. All entrances are like this. There is only one entrance, one opening into the forest of other connective ideas, or ways of truth. If you walk past the entrance, without entering it, and going on through the door, you never connect fully to what is within. The oneness in the infinite provides the infinite within the oneness. A tree survives because although it appears to be solely only itself, its roots combine together with all other plants within the one soil of God's love. When we have our feet within love, we can lift our hearts, minds, and spirits to the skies to be ourselves within God. One day, a woodsman came along, and he cut this solitary old tree down. He did this because he was lazy, and so he wanted this particular one instead of going further into the forest of plentiful trees, just up ahead. When we settle for the entrance door, thinking that it is the only thing to be found, we lose the entrance to ourselves, because we often then destroy it, like this woodsman did, and so we can never use it again, that is until it can rebuild itself, or regrow itself within us, once more again. How do we rebuild our entrance door into God's kingdom? By reaching into the plentiful forest of other trees, you can connect to them, and hopefully one day, one of these will provide you with a new beginning or seedling that will begin to grow itself within your own heart. We connect to others as much as we let them reconnect to us. Is it really in fact true that we can never know the power of love until we reconnect to another soul, or to God like this? Love is essentially trapped within its own oneness, or within an individual, if it can't fully flow. Is love really ever truly trapped like this, or is it just being prevented from manifesting or exhibiting its full power within us, when this happens? Love is never trapped forever, like water it always continually tries to flow, to find a new way to flow, or to renew its full-flowing, once more again. Only its rate of flow can be slowed down, or sometimes dammed up inside yourself for a short while, that is until it breaks itself free again. Love will always find such a way, given enough time to do this. The way is usually found by reconnecting to others, and even to the other parts of your own self. Every life experience is an experience with love. When we learn to see the love within every such experience, we will experience the fuller flowing of love. Only by not seeing love, and by perhaps feeling fear instead, do we restrict this flow of love, by our not seeing its pooling of itself inside of us. When the pool gets large enough, however, we will often stop for a minute, by being numbed still by our pain for example, and we will then look into the reflection of ourselves, shining forth for us to see from this pool of love, still inside of us. Everything reflects itself to us in this way, and we will see the reflection when we build our eyes consciously strong enough, and then hold onto the eyes of love for long enough to see its reflection. We need to be still to do this, and not to rush past the pool of love, or to keep continually stirring it up, and not letting it settle down enough or long enough for us, in order for us to see what is really going on here within our own lives. Essentially though, overall secure within its position within God's oneness, love is not trapped. Love is always infinitely present flowing into itself from itself. This is God, he is a constant flowing of love. How can this be so? Well, God's oneness is not oneness in the sense that we often think that it is. We often see it as being lifeless and already complete, but no, oneness is forever dynamically alive, swirling around itself with God's unconditionally perfect love. Oneness is oneness, but love is the energy that is being created on top of this oneness, so to speak, but only when oneness is being totally only oneness. This is not an additional added on factor, but merely an inherent quality of oneness. God's oneness is all things to itself within itself, and nothing exists without. We must remain as ourselves whilst at the same time being the oneness. We must keep our door open, whilst not shutting ourselves off or ever cutting ourselves off from even one single other part of oneness. We must remain within the forest of love, even if we are seemingly growing all separately alone. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Work for love, not against it, and your life will be a work of love.