The Virtue of Flexibility

Hey gentle reader, it is good to be back with you again.

 As I was coming home from daycare the other day I noticed a lot of trees had been uprooted on Bacons Bridge Road due to road construction. Surrounding the base of the trees that were ripped out of the ground where blades of grass or reed like plants.

Later on in the day I thought about what I had seen. Trees look strong compared with the wild reeds and grasses that were growing up around the tree stumps laying on their side. I thought about those tree stumps and the huge trunk and branches that were once the attached to them. They were laying on the ground totally cut up ready for the shreader.

Trees look strong compared with the wild reeds and grasses in the field. But when a bad storm comes the trees can be uprooted, whereas the wild reeds and grasses move back and forth by the wind remained rooted and stand up again when the storm has calm down.

 All this caused me to think about the word flexibility. Flexibility is a great virtue. When we cling to our own positions and not willing to let our hearts be moved back and forth a little by the ideas and actions of others, we too may be easily broken. Being like wild reeds and the grasses does not mean being wishy-washy gentle reader. It means moving a little with the winds of the time while remaining solidly anchored in the ground. A humorless, intense, opinionated rigidity about current issues might cause these issues to break our spirits and make us bitter people. And so gentile reader, let's all trying to use the life ring often yet being deeply rooted in God's Word.