My friends and seekers of God,

Perhaps you too have a childhood memory the Lord Jesus Christ uses to teach you a valuable spiritual lesson.

As a young boy growing up in the Midwest USA on the northwest side of the city of Chicago, I distinctly remember the huge maple tree in the parkway almost in front of the Bush family home next door to us on Keokuk Avenue.

It stood as a silent sentinel and central meeting place for the neighborhood kids both during the warm, sunny summers, after school play time, and during the fall even as the thousands of then-brown leaves were [Read more…]