A Trees Life

Imagine that you are an acorn seed which has been buried in the soft soil by a river. Settle yourself down as close to the ground as possible (squatting position), your arms tucked into your chest and your head bowed. Now as you are nurtured by the rain and clear streams of Living Water you begin to grow. Slowly allow yourself to stand lifting the head and arms last. Stretch the arms out and up growing yourself into a healthy strong tree. Wiggle your fingers and feel warm sun beaming on you and wiggle your toes and feel the soft earth below you, allow the breeze to sway you back and forth (sigh).
Now imagine the coming of fall, your leaves are turning colors and beginning to fall. Shake the leaves from your branches, (allow your head to move back and forth and sideways gently, roll your shoulders, shake each arm and each leg). Once the leaves are gone winter arrives causing you to become stiff with cold "brrrrrrrrrrrrr", stiffen every muscle like you are one big frozen hard block of wood. Then spring comes with its strange mixture of summer warmth and winters cold. Relax your outstretched limbs and let them sway in the warmth a bit, then stiffen them like winter, and repeat (relax, stiffen, relax, stiffen). Until finally the warm summer once again arrives and you can freely stretch yourself and reach once again to the welcoming sun (sigh). The End.