Hello Heart Partners!!! I hope you are all going and growing steadily as you walk forward on your journey! MANY MANY exciting things are happening in our land and the world…but all needs prayer so we can get to a better place! I have been praying and seeking for various needs and thanking YAHUAH for ALL HE is doing in our lives…but most recently HE has drawn my attention to TREES! Now some of you who know me well know that I LOVE TREES of all kinds…REDWOODS being my favorite of course! So, I began taking pictures of what “LOOKS” like dead trees, but those of us who have studied them know they are simply DORMANT doing all kinds of amazing work internally! Are you catching a clue yet?? Well, before I go on…I have felt like a DEAD TREE lately…yes I serve my purpose, but truthfully not really enjoying my processes…until YAHUAH began having me search HIS WORD all about HIS TREES and how HE uses them! Now I am finding them immensely gorgeous even in their awkward stage of death on the outside…

So, a scripture that grabbed my attention was Deuteronomy 24:19-20 CEPHER “When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for a stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that YAHUAH ELOHAYKA may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.” Well, I always know that when I seek HIM I will see the answers HE desires for me…not necessarily mine! So, right away I could see and hear what HE was saying…HIS trees are not for us simply to TAKE FROM and enjoy, but to SHARE their WEALTH of BEING with others!! And, I recently began a Volunteer position to do just that…HE showed me in a simple meeting that although I feel and “look” dead…HIS AMAZING GIFTS are simmering in me, growing and ready to be shared with a multitude!!! Well, I must say this was BIG news to me…as I have now lived in my new state almost 10months, and I had no idea what was hiding inside me!! I shared with a new Pastor friend that it was like I was sitting on the ceiling watching the entire meeting unfold and was simply astounded!! I thought for a minute that she thought I might be a bit kooky, but actually she said, ME TOO…I have never seen or heard you like this! HMMM I wondered is this what “DORMANCY” can be like for my majestic trees? Well, as a matter of fact YES…when they are dormant they are regenerating new and old gifts/ideas to give back to the world!! For Fun let’s take a look at some of my daily tree friends that I walk by…

Looks like sticks but if you look closely something is growing out of the tips…

This red tailed Hawk must know something as he is sharing with a little one who could be “lunch!”

This one has frozen tips, but I am positive it’s using it for a good reason!

You see, TREES speak…and all three of those pics are just selections from my library because I have felt like each one…first one I feel growth pains like something wants to burst…2nd one people come close to me for MANY REASONS when I feel like I have ZERO to give back…3rd one I have been experiencing a “FREEZING” time where I truly believe I have nothing to give worth any value…I am learning very quickly as I read HIS WORD…that YAHUAH used TREES in all types of “states of being” to do wonderful and miraculous things! COULD THAT BE ME or YOU TOO???

I THINK YEEESSS! Remember Gideon and how he could not believe YAHUAH would use him for something SOOOO BIG? Well, as I was reading this morning I realized that GIDEON put out a “fleece” to test YAHUAH 2 times before he could BELIEVE him…but where was the “fleece?” Under a tree…and when YAHUAH sent GIDEON down to attack the camp of the MIDIANITES, HE sent his servant PURAH with HIM to help him HEAR the MIDANITE’S plans…Okay first PURAH in Hebrew means BRANCH or COVERAGE…and YAHUAH sent PURAH with Gideon to HEAR BETTER!!! WOW if that doesn’t tell all…

So, one more is grabbing me to share…In EXODUS 15:22-26 This is all about when Moses/MOSHEH brought Yashar’el from the RED SEA and into the wilderness where for three days they could not find water…but then V23 “And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were BITTER: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against MOSHEH, saying , What shall we drink? And he cried unto El-YAHUAH; and YAHUAH showed him a TREE, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made SWEET; there he made a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, vs.26 And said, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of YAHUAH ELOHAYKEM, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to HIS commandments, and guard all HIS statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the MITSRIYM: for I am YAHAUA ROPHE’KA.” I began thinking more deeply about the TREES/WOOD…and then discovered that our water filters today in our FANCY refrigerators still have carbon in them that comes from WOOD!! OH how sweet it is to drink amazingly filtered water! Needless to say, YAHUAH is really speaking to me about NEVER REGARDING …DORMANCY as DEAD!

So, as I pour over HIS word to learn MORE and MORE…I send YOU an encouragement even if TREES are NOT YOUR THING…If you are feeling DORMANT or just not in the mood to do things…remember YAHUAH is working with us INTERNALLY at all times, as we are HIS WORKMANSHIP! We will re-emerge in HIS BEST LIGHT, to serve and thrive in HIS KINGDOM!

Sending prayers, love and always…

SHALOM,

DanaKae