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A tree that is beginning to grow sends
roots down into Mother Earth even as it reaches and opens to the sky above,
seeking nourishment from the sun and the moisture in the air and in the rain
that falls. In the same way, we can envision ourselves as treelike beings,
imagining that we have roots reaching down into the earth, energetic strands
that keep us connected. At the same time, the crowns of our heads lift and
open to receive nourishment from above. Just like a tree, we seek the
sunshine and water we need to survive and thrive. Both trees and people serve
as conduits for the intermingling of the opposite and complementary elements
of air, water, sun, and earth.
We also share creative ways of growing, regardless of the challenges we come
up against in our environments. Trees will even grow through rock, shattering
it, in their effort to reach the air and light they need to survive. We are
similarly resilient, with a built-in propensity for growth and the conditions
that promote it. We find creative ways around the obstacles we confront as we
move along our paths, moving toward the light that feeds us, just as trees
grow around other trees and rocks as they make their way upward.
Contemplating the ways in which trees and people mirror one another brings us
into alignment with the reality that we are part of Mother Nature. Our
children, and the trees and their children, will live together on the earth
as long as we all survive, sharing the elements and serving together to
forward nature’s plan. Walking in a forest can be a meditation, the
interweaving lives of all living creatures and the planet on which we all
take root and reach for the sky.
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