Johnny Appleseed

This is part of our life’s most important work. We plant trees whose fruit we will never see. We water dreams that will remain under the ground for our lifetime. We offer up our own hope as the soil in which others’ hopes may be planted. In doing so, we rest in the humbling hope that all of it is only a warm-up act for the glorious future that God is still persistently bringing together. ~ Room, The Upper. The Upper Room Disciplines 2022: A Book of Daily Devotions (p. 573). Upper Room Books. Kindle Edition. John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed's, has been gone a hundred seventy seven years but we all know about him, for he planted trees he never saw though some of us might have. We can change the world today as well as for generations to come. The world desperately needs the hope and love we can scatter for generations to come!