Moonscape Stump

In this world, where image and appearances are everything. We work on our fitness, our hair, and our wardrobe, making good comments, making good impressions, looking like we have it all together, but there might be another you.

Likewise, this stump has seen life in all it’s fullness. It was once a might Oak tree of a 100 years! Housing insect and larvae and birds nesting. Spring leaf and autumn fall, where leaves fell spiraling to the ground to be wiped up by the winds. It brought shade in the summer and partial shelter from showering rain. Did this oak care about it’s appearance, I doubt it. It reached for the sky and stars, by day and night. It housed life in abundance, that we still know very little about.

Today this Oak stump that has the same moss from yesterday’s blip, now growing on it’s northern side. There is fungi and weeds too, all sharing the space of emptiness that this stump is now able to offer to new plant and insect life. In the summer the shade will be very little and of no use to us, but for the insects, the larvae and the moss, well, they will be cooled accordingly.

On the top of this stump is the emptiness, space, and the openness. Not much here to worry about, more of a moonscape than a place harbouring life, especially on this cold and frosty morning. If this stump is happy with it’s unruly appearance that can still attract a stare from a passer-by, then rather than hiding behind a mask ourselves, maybe we need to think about what appearance really means for us.

Psalm 139:1 & 2
Lord, You have searched me and You know me. You are familiar with all my ways.