Make Like a Tree And....

So today, I'm participating in Lisa-Jo Baker's Five-Minute Friday, where you're supposed to write for 5 minutes straight on one word, no worrying about editing or anything else.  Today's word: Tree.

What the heck?! Tree?

Tree isn't what I want to write about. How about how it's 4:30 in the morning and my butt is up looking for 5 minute Friday because once I'm awake I can't shut my brain off?  How about that?

How about the fact that I can't stop thinking that maybe I'm doing the wrong thing or have misinterpreted God's plan for my life or that people are starting to think my blog is boring or self-important? Or about how I feel like I need more of a schedule for my life but I don't even know how to go about doing that because I do things like wake up at 4:30 in the morning to write?

How about THAT Ms. Baker with your "tree"?

*sigh*

But then I take a minute to actually THINK about trees...and what I love most about them...their brilliance in the fall (yeah, yeah they give us oxygen, too, and that's nice, but not as pretty...I like pretty colors - don't judge me).

And ya know what I love.  In the fall, they're getting ready to REST for the winter.

Trees rest..they are still and reserve their energy and REST.

Perhaps I needed to write about trees after all.