{"id":10053,"date":"2026-11-14T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:33:08","slug":"parable-of-the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/parable-of-the-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Parable of the Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong>What can be said about psychological healing?\u00a0 What does this mean?\u00a0 Be careful of the metaphors you use.\u00a0 The soul of a person is not like the body.\u00a0 It heals in a completely different way.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Your body is the body of an animal.\u00a0 With a scratch or a small burn, it will scab and recover, but if you lose a limb, well you&#8217;ll never get it back again.\u00a0 Barring a miracle from God or medicine, you&#8217;ll just have to make do with whatever is left.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">But the soul is more like the wood of a tree.\u00a0 Gash off a tree limb, and yes that limb is gone, but the tree can grow around that.\u00a0 It can keep growing new branches indefinitely.\u00a0 Like the tree, it will always be obvious where you were wounded, but like the tree you can just keep growing somewhere else forever.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to keep obsessing over what happened, you just do something else and then something else, and so on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>2.<\/strong> If trees could think and they were like people, I bet that every <span class=\"il\">winter<\/span> a bunch of them would be saying to themselves, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong with me?\u00a0 I&#8217;m so bad at being a tree: I can&#8217;t even hold onto any of my leaves, they just all fall off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">&#8220;But it&#8217;s normal for trees to lose their leaves in the <span class=\"il\">winter<\/span>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Nah uh, look at that pine over there.\u00a0 He keeps his all <span class=\"il\">winter<\/span>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m obviously just a defective tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What can be said about psychological healing?\u00a0 What does this mean?\u00a0 Be careful of the metaphors you use.\u00a0 The soul of a person is not like the body.\u00a0 It heals in a completely different way. Your body is the body of an animal.\u00a0 With a scratch or a small burn, it will scab and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-counsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10169,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions\/10169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}