Pablo del Real on The Cottage

[Pablo del Real]

Thanks for focusing on Psalm 1. So often overlooked, Psalms is the book Jesus quoted more than any other.

Rootedness is the way, the way is rootedness.

As a younger man, I longed for the stability and rootedness of trees:

Would

I would like to be a tree

to know my place

and to know it so well,

grounded in the soil

raised by the sun

fed and bred by the wind

drinking from the stream

of living water,

to live instinctually and to have

all my leaves tended for me,

to grow up and down equally,

counterbalance of desire,

knowing always where I am

is where I’ll be and end

this rootless wandering.

Today, I aspire to be one of many trees, united in harmony, rooted in the sacred forest.