No 136 of Living Life Series 1`
The lord saint did make reference in one of His anniversary messages that we should tend to our life or temple like we tend to a tree. As the tree grows, we must nurture it and not act as insects and parasites to harm the well being of the tree and cause decay and rot.
In the tree of life, not all the branches and leaves can be healthy. In life too not all the issues in our life are pleasant but we must focus and tend to the pleasant.
If necessary we must axe away the decayed and rotting branches to prevent tree rot from spreading. This is so as to ensure the other branches remain healthy and more healthy branches can grow.
We must not wallow in frustrations. We need to keep them out of the radar of our life. We need to keep our radar on the blessings and nurture more blessings.
The same applies to a temple. A temple is like a tree. If there is tree rot on any branches, these branches may need have to be axed to save the rot from spreading to the rest of the tree.
A temple needs to be mindful and be prepared to revamp to get rid of human rot from spreading.
One such rot is poor governance. Another is complacency and the others include the pitfall of hero -worshipping man rather than Heaven. Worship Heaven and not man.
A common fallacy is for a temple to stay where it is and rest on its laurels. There is fallacy to stay put and stagnate, even retrograde or back slide. There is often no attempt to re-invigorate the founding members vigour and religious thought.
The original agenda is subsumed by so-called pragmatism and forgotten. The vigour and original religious thought and fervour need to be reborn in the new members. This is like growing more new and young branches and roots of a tree.
In the tree of life, not all the branches and leaves can be healthy. In life too not all the issues in our life are pleasant but we must focus and tend to the pleasant.
If necessary we must axe away the decayed and rotting branches to prevent tree rot from spreading. This is so as to ensure the other branches remain healthy and more healthy branches can grow.
We must not wallow in frustrations. We need to keep them out of the radar of our life. We need to keep our radar on the blessings and nurture more blessings.
The same applies to a temple. A temple is like a tree. If there is tree rot on any branches, these branches may need have to be axed to save the rot from spreading to the rest of the tree.
A temple needs to be mindful and be prepared to revamp to get rid of human rot from spreading.
One such rot is poor governance. Another is complacency and the others include the pitfall of hero -worshipping man rather than Heaven. Worship Heaven and not man.
A common fallacy is for a temple to stay where it is and rest on its laurels. There is fallacy to stay put and stagnate, even retrograde or back slide. There is often no attempt to re-invigorate the founding members vigour and religious thought.
The original agenda is subsumed by so-called pragmatism and forgotten. The vigour and original religious thought and fervour need to be reborn in the new members. This is like growing more new and young branches and roots of a tree.
