Growing Out of the Rock

While driving along the highway through the mountains, I see a tree growing right out of the rock face. Without climbing up there to look, it’s hard to say how much soil hangs on that lip of rock. None the less, it is now the home of a very stubborn tree.
All the other trees seem to look over the edge incredulously, and a few of us look up.
This tree reminds me that God placed me where He wanted and I’ve been placed a lot. My only response is to bloom where I’m planted.
It reminds me not to look to others to gauge my development, progress or status. I’m only to look one direction, toward God.
No matter where I find myself, even if it’s in the lip of a rock with hardly any soil, God will take care of me. He will sustain me in the face of what seems impossible.
He is able to accomplish what no one else can: Growth in unlikely places.