John Muir was a prolific writer and he left for us many words to gather and ponder and quote. Another well loved line of his, "Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world" is a quote that I came across after having "known" Muir for a very long time. I had already adopted PINECONE as my life motto by then (PINECONE is an acronym for PourINEverything! CheerONEveryone! with IN and ON also being acronyms within an acronym: IN for ImagineNations; ON for OthersNeeds, so these "two-little two-letter but not too-late" words carry discreetly the focus of our imaginations on the needs of others in every nation! POUR is also an acronym, though not capitalized in PINECONE. POUR: PeopleOfUnlimitedResources) so.....you can see why I readily made "Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world" another close campanyon of mine! Muir's "two pines" spurred me to create another PINE acronym to pair (so I would have two pines) with PourINEverything, and so I crafted PINES to be PrayerINEverySecond, as this is what I PINE for more than anything, because I believe when we live the prayer we were taught to pray "Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done, On Earth As It is In Heaven" we will find ourselves in unending worship and prayer, and flowing from our unbroken praise and petition, will be the fruit that remains (as Jesus promises) in the unshakable, everlasting kingdom of heaven, and everything that needs to come into action, will. Prayer is the firm foundation and the flowing fountain that grows the flourishing forrest that produces forever fruit through faithful followers!
On January 13, 2020, in answer to prayer, I was directed in the early morning hours to Psalm 50:10, "For every animal of the ~Forrest~ is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills." From these lines and verses (and others) along with much thinking and prayer over many years, has come BACK Forrest Fullaunthrop'E! and Muir &Myrrh Minestrees~ Muir Mountains &Morning Myrrhseas. I chose the spelling of Minestrees for Psalm 50:10, with "Mines" as a reminder that everything belongs to our Creator, and "trees" for the picture of the Forrest. Mines'trees is pronounced in the same way and with the same meaning as ministries. The spelling I crafted fits this vision.
