Thanks be to God for people like C.S. Lewis, Karl Rahner, Ron Rolheiser, and Julia Wilson---those in whom the Spirit has taken root and grown into a great tree, providing shade to all who wander in a dry and barren wasteland.
In [them] I will place my own Spirit, says the Lord, and [they] shall be a light to the nations and a blessing to those far off. In [them] I shall plant my word, and it shall not return to me void, but accomplish on the earth all I decide.
Psalm 1 tells us that the person who "meditates day and night" on the Word of the Lord is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in due season and whose leaf does not wither. Those who are tired and weary are drawn to sit awhile in the shade of great spiritual trees; there they find rest for their souls.
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i like trees...
ReplyDeletetrees with tangled branches
softened by the pattern of their leaves.
trees are living statues
sculpted by the wind
and nourished by the goodness of the soil.
dance forever trees
deep roots lead up to higher inspirations. mk