What is the root of the fruits of contempt, isolation, control, perfectionism, comparison?
When I meet with clients for Christian Counseling or Life Coaching, we start off with an illustration of a tree. Several great Christian or Biblical Counselors use a tree as a model of a person, and I have adopted a similar comparison. A fruit tree bears fruit (apple, peach, banana etc). The fruit can be ripe and delicious or rotten or immature. The fruit's quality is based on the transmission of nutrients from the trees roots through the trunk and out to the limbs and fruit. If the tree's root is rotten or messed up, then the nutrients cannot be distributed correctly and if the trunk isn't functioning as it should (taking the nutrients from the root to the fruit) then the fruit will suffer too. So take that and apply it to you! Your actions and behaviors are the fruit that is seen. The trunk is the thoughts that nourish or harm the fruit (change the fruit for good or bad). But if the root is bad (rotten or not getting the nutrients) then the whole tree suffers a...