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When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr．Gibbs．When Dr．Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was 1 trees．His house sat on ten acres(英亩), and his life's goal was to make it a 2 ．
The good doctor had some interesting 3 concerning planting trees．He never 4 his new trees．Once I asked why．“Watering plants 5 them．"He said,"If you water them, each younger generation will grow 6 ．So you have to make things 7 for them．”
He talked about how watering trees 8 shallow roots, and how trees that weren't watered had to grow 9 roots in search of water．He'd planted an oak and, 10 watering it every morning, he'd 11 it with a rolled-up newspaper．I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's 12 ．
Dr．Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home．Every now and again, I returned and walked by his 13 and looked at the trees that I'd watched him plant some twenty-five years ago．They're incredibly 14 now．
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my 15 ．I stand over them and pray for them． 16 I pray that their lives will be easy．But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my 17 ．
I know my children are going to encounter hardship．Life is tough, whether we want it to be or not．Too many times we pray for 18 , but that's a prayer seldom met．What we need to do is pray for 19 that reach deep into the earth 20 they won't be swept apart when the rains fall and the winds blow．
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