The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 78

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hate Errol. I'm a poet, one that just happens to
write in a forest. As of late, I've been called
to a very special collection of trees at the Billy
Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina. I never know what
I'm going to write about when I step into the forest,
nor do I know what I've written about until this
moment right here, which gives us plenty of time to
talk about it at the end. These are not my words.
These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest, Chapter seventy eight,

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August thirty first, twenty seventeen. Summer's gentle rain puts its
imprint on the Southern collection of trees. The birds are
in full song, while the drips and drops remind me
of wind chimes in harmony. So clean the forest looks,
its shape a deep green, its presence that of giving.
It's always willing to share, to allow you to explore,

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while letting go of all the things that weigh you down.
This close to September, and there's no sign of any
seasonal changes. Then again, the human eye rarely puts focus
on such openings, or we'd catch them not only in ourselves,
but those that are walking with us. I find it
to be very funny to take note that the only
thing that's missing are the things that we keep taking,

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which is often compared to where we would like to
be growing. I'm not sure this forest understands. And as
I write that sentence, a Doe with her two fond
babies has suddenly walked up. She's twenty five feet from
this place where I store so many words. She stares
with so much beauty, their innocence and untold story. They're

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watching me, watch them almost if to be a green
that a forest during a late summer rain is an
extremely positive place to release anything that you're guessing. I
listen while they stand in front of me. It's almost
as if they're whispering. Then again, what if what we're
supposed to be hearing in this physical picture is truly

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a tall green tree with its roar. Something that says,
mister poet and miss lady Doe. The two of you
seem so small, and your children are gorgeous, But the
essence of God's natural beauty is what we need to
be recognizing. Who There's a message here, and the message
I think begins with the part where the writer is

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talking about the things that we are missing are the
things that we keep taking, only to find that the
tree was talking to the doe and the writer saying
that the focus should be on what God has brought
to the picture and not necessarily what the two of
them were seeing in the moment. In an everyday world,
we do recognize people around us. A lot of us

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make judgments, a lot of us will walk by and
not say anything. A lot of us will try to
reach out and become friendlier with anybody who is around us,
But we forget about the real picture here, the essence
of why it is that we were brought together within
the circle of the universe. We can't take our eye
off from God at any time just because something different

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and unique stands in front of you. You have to
be able to look at it and appreciate the situation.
But you also have to welcome the moment that God
has put on your path, and you learn from that
the connection with the deer and the fawns with a poet.
It seems like something that you would find in Walden's Pond.
But the truest story here is that the uniqueness of

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that moment was based on trust God was giving his
trust to two different characters and two different creatures that
have nothing in common with each other. I mean, the
deer and the human. Tell me some stories there outside
of Santa Claus. But if you take a bigger picture back,
pull that lens back and take a look at the
picture of that forest during a late summer rain, The

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beauty of the green trees and all the tall grasses,
the flow of the stream that was going by, and
in walks a deer with two fawns. It's part of
the picture. But do you see the entire process in
your own personal life? How many times have you pulled
the lens back on your everyday world and thought, wait
a second. God has provided in that I have totally

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been blind to. God has given me the opportunity to
step in directions that have been in His name of victory.
God has given me the right decisions when I thought
everything was incorrect. When you pull the lins back and
look at the beauty that God has given you on
an everyday basis, you become aware of everything that you

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want to stare at. But remember this line, though, the
things that we are missing are the things that we
keep taking. What is it that you really shouldn't be
holding on too I'm errow. These are not my words,
these are the lyrics from Billy's Forest