C. S. Lewis, Branches, and Trees

     Are you familiar with C. S. Lewis?  I love The Chronicles of Narnia and used to read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to my students when I taught younger grades. I especially love his book Mere Christianity. Recently I was surprised to find this excerpt he wrote in The Great Divorce about branches and trees:

"We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.  Even on the biological level life is not like a river but like a tree.  It does not move towards unity but away from it and the creatures grow further apart as they increase in perfection.  Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

I hope you have a great day today and realize that the "ripe goodness" in you is unique and therefore needs to be nurtured and shared with confidence!

                                                                                                    Love ya'll, Shelli