Hope in a dead branch?
The wind, the rain, the storm have cut you down … thrown you to the ground …
Never again will you bear new leaves …
nor flowers …
nor fruits …
Life seems to have deserted you …
Yet you have a WONDERFUL POSSIBILITY! …
Accept to be thrown into the fire
And then you will become LIGHT AND HEAT
FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN THE HOUSE.
You have been transformed by the fire of Love, and LIFE is reborn!
From an evening prayer by Michel Quoist