Sometimes, when our disc is going in the wrong direction it hits a tree and stops its flight or redirects it in some positive way. "Good tree!" we say. If it weren't for that tree our disc would have ended up in a far worse place.
More often though, when our drive or approach shot hits a tree, it's a bad thing. "Stupid tree!" We threw a really good line and then some random tree reaches out and swats our disc right to the ground.
Then there's the ultimate in tree misdirection. It's called "First Available." Hitting the first available tree is NEVER a good thing.
Who created these darn trees anyway?
Well, God did. God created them to produce oxygen. Without trees we'd have a much more difficult time breathing. Or we'd be dead.
A better question would be to ask, 'Who puts a disc golf course in the middle of the woods? The answer is humans. But why?!? Well, the course designer is probably trying to challenge our game. Providing us with a variety of challenges and making us use different shot shapes. But it could also be to torture us.
Let's switch gears and look at each of our lives for a moment. Every life is filled with relationships. People are to our lives what trees are to the life of a disc. Think about it.
The people we encounter in life present different challenges. Some are there to teach us something. Others are there to save us from ourselves.
God created trees and He also created people. The cool thing about good people, as opposed to good trees, is that we can often take them with us on life's journey.
Tree love, and human love, help us when things are going bad. And they can continue to help us throughout our lives, no matter where we are. The important thing to remember is that God created these people. God created the opportunity for us to learn and to love. Why? Because God loves us.
"We love because he first loved us." - 1 John 4:19
God provides us with both challenges and helps as we walk though this life, Trees can do the same for us on the disc golf course. All were made by God for specific purposes. How we deal with each of them defines us.
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