PHILOSOPHY

  LIFE CAN BE TOUGH SOMETIMES. THERAPY CAN’T FIX THAT.

BUT IT CAN HELP YOU WEATHER THE STORM

 THE OAK TREE 

A mighty wind blew night and day 

It stole the oak tree's leaves away 

Then snapped its boughs and pulled its bark 

Until the oak was tired and stark 

But still the oak tree held its ground 

While other trees fell all around 

The weary wind gave up and spoke: 

How can you still be standing, Oak? 

The oak tree said, I know that you 

Can break each branch of mine in two

 Carry every leaf away 

Shake my limbs, and make me sway 

But I have roots stretched deep in the earth

 Growing stronger since my birth 

You'll never touch them, for you see 

They are the deepest part of me 

Until today, I wasn't sure 

Of just how much I could endure 

But now I've found, with thanks to you 

I am stronger than I ever knew 

 ​-By Johnny Ray Ryder, Jr.