Resilience

I stole  borrowed this picture from Patricia Josephine's newsletter. 

(BTW: Newsletters are wonderful ways to keep in touch with writer friends. Join Patricia's mailing list here and if you're in the mood to be signing up for newsletters, sign up for mine here.)

Okay, so this isn't a post about newsletters. It's about this picture. It's inspiring and I am so glad Patricia snapped it and shared it. 

Look closely...see the tree growing into the side of the mountain? Total weed tree. (Not marijuana weed, survivor weed.) No one planted it, watered it, or cultivated it, but it's still doing its growing thing. 

Photo compliments pf Patricia Josephine

Years ago, they blasted an entire side of the mountain on Route 2 leading out of my town in order to widen the road. It was a stark switch from gently sloping green hillside to vertical bare rock. 

Change, even when it's welcome progress, can be ugly.  

Fast-forward less than a decade and that hill is now covered in grass, trees, and shrubs. 

You'd never know it was blasted. 

That's the resilience of creation and at times like now, it's important to remember that we are part of creation and we, like every living thing in our universe, were designed to adapt. 

Sometimes we forget that. Until someone snaps a pic of a tree growing on an inhospitable rock. 

That's our reminder that no matter what happens, life continues. Even where it seems impossible.