THE TREE OF ME - by Jeffry E. Shelton
The acorn does not know what kind of tree it will become. It doesn't worry about figuring out how to become an Oak Tree based on what a bunch of other seeds say a tree looks like.
What if an acorn lay alone amongst a pile of Willow seeds, ever contemplating how to grow into the beautiful shape, color and design of the Willow? Could the acorn ever become a Willow tree? Should it?
The acorn's only responsibility is to surrender to the process of germination (dying to self and surrendering to the process of becoming).
The Oak Tree emerges because that is what the acorn was always designed to be. The acorn must only surrender.
I do not yet see the tree that I will become. And it doesn't matter what anyone else says my tree will look like. It only matters that I surrender to the process of becoming.
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