I first wrote and published this on my Newspaper-Info site (showing how to start and run a small paper).  I placed it there because many of us need all the encouragement we can get, when it comes to pressing on toward our dreams and goals in life.  I’ve since posted it on another site (the free calendar page shown in the sidebar).

So why post it here?  Because lots of us need all the encouragement we can get to press on toward our dreams and goals.  Whe  life seems a little confusing (or a lot) we need to trust the Lord even more.  God is always at work in our lives, helping to bring us to the place of maturity and accomplishment meant just for us.

Remember the Acorn

An acorn has no idea about how to become an oak.

It has never been to school or told by the other seeds how a seedling develops into an oak tree.  An acorn can never so much as describe an oak, even if it should somehow sthink or speak.  But deep inside the acorn’s heart is something powerful — something that presses forward and ever upward.

When placed in the proper surroundings, the acorn will literally burst open, unable to contain all the potential that lives deep in its heart.  As the acorn continues to follow the design already inside, it continues to grow and become stronger.

Soon it’s a sapling instead of a mere seed.  Then it grows taller and taller, yet is still just a slender tree.  Finally, one day, it finally becomes what was deep inside of it all along: a stout and mighty oak.

It’s true that some acorns get a later start than others.  Some will wait for many seasons before they finally begin to grow.  But even a late start cannot hinder the perfect design and purpose placed inside every acorn by God Himself.