You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer Author Cynthia Heald Life is marked by a

Life is marked by a variety of losses

Torry experienced plenty of miracles and mishaps in the wilderness

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and I never-even for a fraction of a second-believed that this would work for me

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You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer Author Cynthia Heald Life is marked by a"That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither whatever they do prospers." Psalm 1: 3Sometimes we describe ourselves as trees. When we're thriving, we speak of being rooted and fruitful, in a good season. When we struggle, we might describe ourselves as withering, cut off from friendship and the world. These ways of describing ourselves matter because they shape the ways we