If You Had Only One Day to Live

When I told my Dad that we planted three trees in our front yard, he told me the story of an old friend of the family who was asked once, "What would you do if you only had a day to live?" His response, "I'd plant a tree."


We planted two live oak trees on the south side of the driveway and this one on the north side.


The landscaper had to rig up these bubblers to the sprinkler system -- one for each tree.


"Blessed is the one whose ... delight is in the law of the Lord ... He is like a tree planted by streams of water (do sprinklers count?) which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers." (Psalm 1) Not a bad day's work.