Turning the Negative Into Postive
Huge Tree
A few years ago I happened to be stressed and depressed at that point I needed no body to talk to me in any way, so I decided to take a walk in a nearby park/gardens/compound, I laid down looking above in the sky, seeing the shining blue-white clouds, I begun asking God, “ If you do exist come out of those clouds and meet me now?” from that moment I don’t know how I sat and my eyes were now focusing on a nearby huge tree which was just in front of me, I looked at the leaves, the branches, the stem and the roots, since some roots were on top of the ground,
The Lord had to drive me back before the plantations took place, at the beginning someone got the seed and planted the tree, even if it took time to germinate he became patience with it until germination, he was filled with joy and happiness for that, thereafter, the shoot became fragile and sun was shining day by day, so he had to protect it, by every day getting a wateringcan and water his growing tree, where he realized that enemies could attack it, he had to create a perimeter wall for its protection and a shade to prevent it from the daily sun and exposure, this took some good many years until now, look at the trees in your compound, I believe some trees were planted by someone whom you even don’t know may be you planted it by yourselves but the care you used to give it is not the same as today, now here we’re enjoying everything bit of it, When you come to some parts of Africa basically in the villages, when the leaves fall off the trees they are used as lighting papers to start up a cooking stove and atime when the branches fall off, they are used as energy, and also for building, other trees are medicine also, they become helpful but we can’t know how they came into existence.
After going through that revelation and vision I checked myself and begun questioning myself : When I was a baby my parents used to take care of me day by day, I was infact breast fed on the palms of my mother, they bathed me always, when I became sick they took responsibilities to see that my health is in good conditions,
I remember, during Christmas seasons we used to go visit our grandparents in villages once in a while, One time my mother and I together with my brothers and sisters paid a visit to our grandmother, upon reaching there, we all the children were sent in the grass shushed kitchen, I took step to cooking milk, I was given a kettle then went to the cow and the person responsible of milking the cow gave me the milk in the kettle hence to the firewood local stove, after it was fully cooked, I carried the kettle which was too hot, as I was approaching the door way to the living room, I fell down and the whole blazing milk poured onto my right arm, I screamed not because of the pain I was feeling but because of the fear that I was going to be beaten because of pouring the milk, so my grandma ran to me and am glad that time none of them beat me. They went to the bushes and got all several herbs to find ways of healing my arm as soon as possible, they all seemed not working, the arm begun rotting and I could see the bones inside, every day I couldn`t sleep but cry, for sure I thought that my hand was to be chopped off, someone in the village brought an idea that when you get the fur of a rabbit and pour onto it, it will gain more meat and heal, since we were in the village, they ran and got the fur, poured it on my hand but it worsened everything but instead it produced a lot of purse, which could stink and nobody would even come near me, I almost died in the village because of ignorance, thereafter I was brought back to Kampala the main City of Uganda, and I was treated and healing came, but all this care came by my parents.
Well, your parents could be treating you bad now, forsook you, but one thing I can tell you, since they persisted and carried your pregnancy until your birth, they remain your parents, recently have been watching ONE TREE HILL- SERIES: this movie teaches you how to handle love regardless of any thing Love shall be there, you may stubbornly act as if you don’t have love inside of you but its there, you just have to dig it and use it.
Now am grownup my parents don’t have to carry me so I can feed, I leave by my own, just like the tree, its on its own now, when it rains, it rains on it, when the sun shines, it shines on it, many enemies approach it, and use it in any way but it remains standing.
In this state what I do, I turn every negative into positive, in many ways when the enemy comes to you, a times we say: may be God doesn’t exist but he remains there and He always watches over us, when the sun shines on the tree you may say that the trees are going to burn but instead they are growing with turgidity, infact they are gaining minerals for a process. Look at the differences in plants, during summer, winter, spring seasons, at every stage the trees, plants look beautiful,
Just like humans at every stage we look awesome for the testimony of God.
Hope you are encouraged
written by Tumwesigye Daniel
