The Security of Our Trees

In the beginning, when that first gorilla left his tree and tried to be a man, it was a new and strange role. He wasn't sure he could play it.  It would have been easier to stay with the others, but he had taken a step.  He was going to try to be what no one thought he could, or should, be.  He was trying to be different.  The progress was hardly noticeable.  It may even have seemed a step backward.  But because he dared to try, it would someday happen.  He had stopped being an "it" and began to be "he."  Because he stayed on the ground rather than accept the invitation to flee back into the trees, man was born.  There may now be something trying to be born from us, if we will let it.  If we will but leave the security of our trees.