Quote for the day

“True Christian change works more like an oak tree in the spring, when the new life inside pushes off the old dead leaves that still hang on.”—John Perkins in Let Justice Roll Down

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I grew up in an oak woods. The oak doesn't drop all its leaves in the fall, they just hang on until spring. We used to joke that you could rake leaves year round with oak trees. Anyway, I like the word picture, the new life within pushing off the old dead leaves. We can try to fix ourselves by pulling off leaves, but there are always more leaves to pull off. It is only as the new life becomes real within us that the old leaves are forced off. A much more effective way, don't you think?
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