A famous passage from the Tao te Ching notes that,”It is the hard and stiff that will be broken. It is the soft and supple that will prevail.” (#76). Anyone who gardens knows that dried out stalks are very different than moist new shoots, and it’s the same with people. If you become dried out spiritually, or rigid in your thinking, you can break – and sometimes break hard. But if you are able to be flexible and open, and find ways to draw water from God’s well, you will prevail. Psalm 96 describes those who are planted in God as being soft, supple, green, moist, and producing fruit even into old age. Where are you planted? Is there water nourishing your roots or are you going through a dry spell? How could you send some new roots into God?
-thoughts on Psalm 92:13, “Those planted in the house of God flourish...they are always green and filled with sap.”
