Standing Firm | Oak Trees and Dandelions

When an enormous oak tree stood in the front yard of the house where I grew up. I saw it literally every day for years when I was a kid. For me, to walk past that oak tree on my way to school was as natural as breathing. The tree was so huge I couldn’t even reach it’s lowest branch. The giant shade provider was present when our family moved into the house, and it still stood firm when we moved away. I suppose it’s still there.

That huge oak tree is the image that comes to my mind as I read the very first Psalm:

How blessed is the man who does not walk in the 

Counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, 

Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! 

But his delight is in the law of the Lord. 

And in His law he meditates day and night. 

He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, 

Which yields its fruit in its season

And its leaf does not wither;

And in whatever he does he prospers.

–Psalm 1:1-3

That mighty oak poured its acorns all over our yard every year no matter what. Falls are beautiful in Louisville, Kentucky, in large part because of the colors produced by the leaves as they turn. That’s when the acorns would rain down on our yard year after year.

A lot of things happened to me and in our family while we lived in that house.

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