“Suitable for all ages, the book skillfully integrates three elements: scripture, story, and illustration. A forlorn tree with little fruit to show laments its existence. A kind man comes along and gives the tree hope to abide until something special comes along, revealing its purpose. This book will encourage believers of all ages. Read “The Abiding Tree” and place it on your coffee table so your guests can enjoy it too!”
— Christian Book Awards
For the one who carries it alone.
Men carry more than they say. The ones I know best, entrepreneurs, founders, small-business owners, executives, feel the full weight of a family’s wellbeing and a payroll’s at the same time, and most have quietly decided the weight is theirs alone. I know that pressure from the inside. I’ve lived it, and I’ve sat across from men who were living it and would not say so.
20M
Nearly 20 million men run, and are owned by, their small businesses. Add the executives and managers, and every man with a family to provide for, and you have a very large number who feel overwhelming pressure and very few who will say so.
“I wrote this book for one of those men. He was holding up the whole family at once: a dying relative, young adults children struggling to find their footing, and a start-up business that needed to pay for it all. He told almost no one. He kept it to himself and toughed it out, the way men do, until he was wrung dry. He would never have bought anything for himself. That is exactly why I made it a gift.”
— Michael Weissman
What's inside for this reader
The Abiding Tree is a deeply emotional journey hidden inside a short story. It cuts to the heart of the real issue: depletion. All along the way, the reader will find topics that we all are challenged by, including comparison to others, needing to wait, and continuing even though it is hard. A short excerpt:
The man looked up at the branches, then placed His hand on the bark. “You are a good tree,” He said. “You bear good fruit and you’ve always given all you’ve had.”
For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. — Luke 6:43-44
How to give it
One way to make the gift even more impactful is to add a little verse or two on the cover page. It will make the book more special. Here are some great verses you might consider.
He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:5 (WEB)
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31 (WEB)
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isaiah 41:10 (WEB)
Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28 (WEB)
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