Daily Inspiration: April 06, 2016 at 08:30AM

Wise word Wednesday: This story has helped me to trust that many times we may not see or understand, but that does not mean it is not there because sometimes it seems what you need comes out of thin air. In 1640 Jan Baptista van Helmont, a Flemish physician and chemist, carried out an experiment. He took a pot of soil, and a willow sapling and weighed both. He planted the little tree in the soil and carefully watered it for five years. At the end of the five years he then again weighed the willow tree and the soil. The tree had increased in weight by 164 pounds, but the soil had decreased in weight by less than two ounces.
Where had the material of the tree come from? Out of thin air. At the time nobody understood that plants take oxygen and carbon from the air to build their leaves and stems and flowers. Just because we don't understand a process doesn't mean it isn't happening. Every time you look at a tree you might like to remember that it's actually made out of thin air, and maybe also wonder about what invisible processes might be going on in you, right now. Today trust that there are processes working for you that you can't see.
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