Have you ever had the pleasure of watching a baby learn to walk? Those tentative first steps? The moment they let go and step out. Hands free. What are the parents doing? Are they modeling the walking? "One foot in front of the other Junior. That's it. You pick up your foot like this and then move it forward and put it down."
No. Probably not.
How about when a baby learns to talk? The babbles. The sputtering. What was mom doing? Was she bent over him, "Move your jaw Junior. Lift your tongue now. Put your lips together and push out some air."
No. Probably not.
There's a whole bunch of stuff out there that gets learned just because it gets learned. They learn it because we live it. We are not teaching it. We are doing it. Are they following our lead or just doing what comes naturally?
Who knows? It doesn't matter. It gets done.
The tiny acorn lands where it lands and simply does what it's made to do. The mighty oak does not stand over it and instruct. The mighty oak rises in what can only be imagined as a living example of what's supposed to happen.
The things that acorn does not learn from its parent tree are in fact the mightiest of all. How to grow. How to root itself firmly as a foundation. How to spread its branches and look for the sunlight. How to grow leaves, and house creatures and drop acorns.
What the tiny acorns knows, without having to be told, is how to grow a tree. And a well tended tree grows.
How to grow a tree is how to grow a life.
No comments:
Post a Comment