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Parable of dead things

I hope you’ll read this to the end because it’s taken me a lifetime to write.  Dead things can destroy your life. I’m going to write this like a parable.  Here’s my parable: There was a farmer that planted a beautiful fruit tree. He watered and fed it and expected it to grow. The problem was that one branch kept dying.  He would nurture it and it would grow a bud and he just knew it would live. But it would fall off and die. The farmer neglected the rest of the tree trying to save that one branch. The branch would bud, then the bud would fall off and die.  The man was very frustrated and said to himself “ why does this branch keep dying?” “I’m doing everything right, I get hopeful then that bud falls at my feet and dies.” The rest of the tree became sick. It was giving its strength to breathe life into the dead branch. The tree would breathe, a bloom would appear, but the tree didn’t have what it needed to sustain the dead limb.  The farmer called a professional out to look at his sick