The biblical images of the vine, the mustard bush and the cross itself are none of them even self-respecting trees, yet all paradoxically are trees of life. For many poets, preachers and hymn writers, Christ is the mythic tree of life, bearing its 12 fruits, a tree beyond nature as our life in Christ is beyond our nature.
This excerpt is from Gail Ramshaw’s “Words Around the Font” (Wipf & Stock, 2004), quoted in the Bible study, “Slow Faith” by Liv Larson Andrews in from the November 2015 Gather magazine.
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