Even though Autumn is not as glorious as in Vermont, US or even The Netherlands, i was able to appreciate the changing hues in Geneva as i kept track of one particular type of tree in front of my office. The beauty was that along the river (or rather the canal), i was able to the same type of tree coming alive in different colors at the sametime. If i have confused you, i have met my objective...
The same type is planted every few meters, and the beauty is that every tree is unique in changing colors in its owntime in the same season. While one was still green, another was in bright maroonish red, another in flaming orange and another almost showing naked branches... Parallel this to humans: we all grow up, all of us go through difficulties in life, but our responses/approach to them are so different, so unique, yet in the overall sense of being humans, we end up doing the same. And i thought any tree changed its overall colors all at the sametime. Boy, was i in for a surprise!
I was walking back home in December (or Jan?) through the park behind Cornavin (Montbrilliant??) and i was struck by a very tall tree, almost as tall as a ceder in Lebanon, with different colors in the same tree - green below, yellow in the middle and bright orangish red at the top. I stood there for a second, enjoying the beauty of the Lord's creation. Isnt it through that we also feel differently in different areas in our life? I said softly, je t'aime Papa and had almost tears in my eyes. He is so marvelous and He gives me opportunities to notice that and acknowledge every single day; yet i am so blinded by the world and by my own misguided priorities most of the times.
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