The Stick that Turned into a Person

I know it sounds impossible but it is true.

A stick turned into a person.

Let me tell you the story.

Last year, in May of 2007 I had a stick. It didn't have any roots, or leaves, or flowers; it was just a stick about a foot long.

Well, I knew it may be a special stick so I planted it in rich soil from my garden near an wrought iron trellis in the back of my home outside my kitchen window where I knew it would get plenty of sunshine.

I made sure it got a lot of water and gave the stick special nutrients to make it happy. I checked on it every day and watched to see if it had any magical qualities.

Nothing happened for a few months. Still, I watered my stick, I fed it, and carefully attended to it.

Finally, one day I knelt down to check on my stick and noticed a few little specks of green dotting its sides. I knew there were special things to come.

After several weeks leaves started popping up all around my stick, in fact the stick started growing and turning green.

The stick grew and grew until it was nearly as tall as me. Then the truly miraculous thing happened. Little berries started to appear on its small branches. The stick continued to grow and brought forth a few dozen of the juiciest raspberries one could eat.

Now, a year later my little stick has become a very large plant filled with enough raspberries to make a few pies and a couple of jars of jam.

And here is the miracle. As I eat the berries, they turn into me. They become me. The raspberries actually change into me as their particles transform into my body.

Now, each day we take into our body all sorts of foods, (and a whole bunch of stuff that is not food), but it all becomes us.

Do we ever stop to think about what is actually happening as we bring into our body nutrients? The food doesn't go through us but turns into us.

The vitamins in my magical raspberries become my vitamins. Its life gives me life. It sacrificed its life for me.

Put another way, the stick and the raspberry transformed sunlight into a form I could take into my body to live. In turn I will tranform that very sunlight as I go through my day bringing forth whatever I will.

I can't get over this.

That little ordinary stick, somewhere deep inside its DNA was awakened as I provided a space to allow it to blossom, and in turn, my stick provided me with life giving, life sustaining nutrients.

Ahhh, life is a miracle.


Blessings and peace,

Jennifer