Two Ways

Eagles at Colville Park - Red Wing January 2013

Thermometer reads almost -20 on the back deck this morning, so decided to spend my "Front Porch" time inside this morning.

Holding my "nth" cup of coffee, I was pondering the psalmist words while looking out at the frozen tundra.  How the trees meditate on the law of God day and night while staying planted near the water that feeds them.

What an amazing picture that brings to mind. 

Whether its the cold winds tearing at their branches, the hot sun beating them down or the torential rains and tornados whipping a frenzy bending them almost to the breaking point, there stands the trees.  Close to the waters. Delighting in God.

Sometimes I feel like one of these trees.  Maybe not often enough.  Still...
I won't break. I will not blow away. I am not chaff.

I am solidly planted in my belief there is a God.

Psalm 1
The Two Ways


Happy are those
who do not follow the advice of the wicked,
or take the path that sinners tread,
or sit in the seat of scoffers;
but their delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law they meditate day and night.
They are like trees
planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season,
and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.

The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgement,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.

Sassy at the top of the stairs