If I pray for a better job and nothing happens, does that mean the tree is telling me wait? If I pray for my mom to be healed and she is, was it the tree saying yes? If she isn't healed, does the tree have a higher purpose in mind through her death?
2006-11-29 10:40:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
depends...what kinda tree is it? a nut tree?
2006-11-29 10:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by sunshine 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
no count what you do to the tree--trim it--lop the edge off-- the roots will nonetheless be under your driveway and susceptible to advance your interlocking stone. i might have it cut back proper out of there and the stump floor out. then you actual can sod over the stump and put in a dwarf tree greater into the backyard. i be responsive to you will think of that's bare at first, yet once you get used to it you will like it greater appropriate. We had a pair of maples in our front backyard. the difficulty replaced into our front backyard faces north and those wood made our front room very dark. We had to have the lighting fixtures on in the sunlight hours. We had them cut back out and replaced with a dwarf crabapple tree and a pair of flower beds and that i in basic terms love the way it seems now
2016-12-13 17:00:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are possibly confusing the tree in your front yard with that black ball that has a window on the bottom - when you tip it over, it gives you those answer choices you have enumerated, and a few more, besides. . .
2006-11-29 10:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the sake of the question, we'll assume you're sincere in your "arboristic" religious impulse. So for you, God is that tree.
I believe God always answers prayers. I don't think we can limit the Divine power to "yes, no or maybe." I believe God usually works through the natural course of life -- through people and things in the world as it is. So God may be giving contingent answers.
There's a story about a pilgrim who was going out to chop wood in the forest. His wife warned him to take his gun, in case he encountered any wild animals.
"If it's God's will I be devoured by wild animals," answered the pilgrim, "then that's what will happen."
"Yes," replied his wife, "But what if God only wills you be eaten by wild animals if you don't bring your gun!?"
2006-11-29 10:49:49 · answer #4 · answered by CaptainAustrailia 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you of Native Faith?
THe Holy Spirit resided in all things and it is as likely/possible that God will use that which coincides with you up bringing to answer you.
If you are trying to be sarcastic I recomend you pray the to the tree to be you lightening rod. :)
2006-11-29 10:44:17 · answer #5 · answered by mike g 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you're praying to a tree in your front yard, there's your first problem,my friend.
2006-11-29 10:43:41 · answer #6 · answered by Mona 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It would depend on the type of tree.
2006-11-29 10:42:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i didnt know that u could pray to a tree.......y would u want 2
2006-11-29 10:42:53 · answer #8 · answered by fancythis 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dear Ronin:
" Everyone who ever tried to use prayer to ask for something has experienced what appears to be failure."
This can occur for two reasons: (1) The Holy Spirit and God have a different opinion from yourself regarding what you are asking for. For instance, if you ask for something They know will not be for your best and highest good now, or in the future, they protect us by not giving us that which the human Intellect is so desirous of. We do have a way of asking for things that seem to hold such promise for us - and yet, will throw us to the ground if we obtain it !
(2) We also ask for things that are truly needed and would be for our highest and best good - yet, on a deeper level within us there is a fear of receiving - for the Intellect "toys" with the thoughts of our not being "up to" having or owning it. The Intellect sets up blockages to receiving that sometimes contains a fear of finding ourself too close to God - bringing Him right up front of us. In healings this can be true. It can be more fearful to be healed, truly, than to accept the illness we have : " We ask for healing because we fear bodily harm or death. At the same time, if we WERE healed the threat to our thought system might be considerably more feaful to us . . .[ than the illness, itself] ."
"All prayer is answered. . . The very fact that the Holy Spirit has been asked for anything will ensure a response. For He knows that NO response would increase fear." He does not allow that, but:
We have a subconscious level in which many thoughts that belong to us are not available to us ! The subconscious thinking is obscure to us. Within that level, there are thoughts of guilts, low self-esteem (I'm undeserving), a fear of God's Presence we have never begun to deal with within ourselves, an unwillingness to have debt to God, and desires to be in certain "fraught" circumstances for what those circumstances can provide us. Illness that may not be immediately life threatening, but quite painful or problematic in our life, can bring us more gentle, loving, caring attention and acts from family, mate, and friends. We can find our emotional position within relationships "turned " for the better, due to an illness we have. Therefore, on a subconscious level of mind, we reject the healing we have been asking for on our conscious or surface level of mind. Illness calls for love.
Since all prayer is always answered for only our highest good, when the Holy Spirit perceives the subconscious level of mind blocking the good, He simply holds His gift for us ; until, we have become aware of these blockages to receiving and have cleared them in our minds sufficiently to receive ! This means no gift from God through the Holy Spirit is ever lost because we were not ABLE to accept and receive what we were asking for. It means the Holy Spirit holds the gift in His Mind and waits upon us.
It may take years. It may be given instantly. It may be evaluated by God as not for your best, and something else is offered in its place.
There is no death. We are created as spirit-mind, in the Likeness of our Creator. Eternal life is our Heritage. It always exists. We but lay aside the human body to continue. . .
Sometimes, between our souls and the Holy Spirit, decisions are made about life or death. The soul has a position, in physical life, behind the human Intellect. We cannot know of these decisions in our human surface level. But, we have to trust that a soul has the wisdom of the Holy Spirit within it to guide it's Journey here in the physical and beyond it.
The quotes are from a book called, "A Course in Miracles."
Sincerely, Lana
2006-11-29 12:02:21 · answer #9 · answered by Lana S (1) 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If can laugh then is green way.Elshow are barbar.
2006-11-29 10:44:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋