Building a fire requires kindling. And kindling, as important as it is, is sometimes hard to come by. The best thing would be to use the small parts of the tree. The extremities that would naturally be trampled into the ground. They’d have to be collected, stripped of anything with moisture, and then can be used to start the fire and as fuel to keep it going.
Once they’re used you have a fire that has lasted. It has surpassed the temptation to die down… it has become hot enough to burn bigger pieces of wood… things that are more dense.
When it comes to things in our lives… our hearts, there is kindling just the same. We soon discover as we get older, there are things that need to be burned out of us. There are major things that we all contend with at one level or another, like pride and ego, jealousy and envy, greed and gluttony, hatred. Then there are things that are the smaller pieces of kindling. The things that will be used to get the fire started for burning out this bigger stuff. Things like being rude, inconsiderate behavior, whining or complaining, cheating, neglect.
If we were to take an inventory of the things that we do on a daily basis, I think we’d find that there are at least a few things that can help to start this cleansing fire. It doesn’t take the whole bundle of kindling to get going. But a steady adding of some unfruitful behaviors at a time can really help us to getting onto the more dense things.
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