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Friday, February 28, 2025
On a walk through our neighborhood, halfway through January, I was surprised to notice what had happened to the white tree you see in the photo above. I’m no tree expert, so can’t tell you for sure its name, but I’m fascinated about that branch that had been jutting straight out to the left. Suddenly, it seems to have decided to stop growing that way and take nearly a 90-degree turn upward. (Maybe it saw the stop sign???)
What’s so spooky is that the upward-thrusting limb doesn’t seem to be merely an offshoot of the horizontal one. I’ve zoomed in on it with the original photo, and it’s like it just decided to change direction. The limb seems exactly as thick as the one it’s growing from.
Anyway, there’s probably an explanation for this, but I don’t know what it is. I thought of grafting as a possibility, but can’t understand why someone would do this. Why not lop off the horizontal limb and save some trouble?
One of the most encouraging things about the Bible is that it, too, talks about miraculous spiritual direction-changes. For a non-nonsense, straight-from-the-shoulder Bible tutorial about this transformation, click the link just below.
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/what-must-i-do-be-saved