stump of a felled tree. These rings are called annual rings and reveal the tree’s age. But the tree’s rings also reveal other information. Narrow rings were formed in years of drought. When the ring is larger, it indicates that nourishment was ample that year. This is an important discovery to which there is a spiritual parallel. We hear a great deal about the importance of maintaining priorities these days. This is not a new idea. God established priorities for trees, not in how they use their time