striving for some deeper roots…

Jeremiah 17:5-10 

This is what the LORD says: 

       “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, 
       who depends on flesh for his strength 
       and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

He will be like a bush in the wastelands; 
       he will not see prosperity when it comes. 
       He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, 
       in a salt land where no one lives.

“But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, 
       whose confidence is in him.

 He will be like a tree planted by the water 

       that sends out its roots by the stream. 
       It does not fear when heat comes; 
       its leaves are always green. 
       It has no worries in a year of drought 
       and never fails to bear fruit.”

 The heart is deceitful above all things 
       and beyond cure. 
       Who can understand it?

  ”I the LORD search the heart 
       and examine the mind…”