On this Earth Day consider planting another tree this year if you can. A tree that will yield some kind of fruit even if the fruit is just good shade to sit enjoy, or good blooms for bees to harvest, or provide green leaves our earth needs to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Something healing for the nations. When you see in person or the images of The High Line in New York City, a decommissioned rail system turned into a garden, you can imagine what that restored city will be like.
feel pretty blessed on this Earth Day to wake up to my small little herd grazing under a sign we found a number of years ago, “It All Began in a Garden.” I know that the grand story of Creation begins in a garden but maybe I should find another sign that says, “And Ends in the City.” Our lives are lived between these two realities. We are planters of gardens and crops, we raise animals for food and we care for and farm the good soil. But there is something in us from the very beginning that has been drawn to cities as well and these too can be beautiful and inspiring when planned well. The picture that we get from Revelation of the good end of all things in the city suggests that “down the middle of the great street of the city, on each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.”
On this Earth Day consider planting another tree this year if you can. A tree that will yield some kind of fruit even if the fruit is just good shade to sit enjoy, or good blooms for bees to harvest, or provide green leaves our earth needs to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Something healing for the nations. When you see in person or the images of The High Line in New York City, a decommissioned rail system turned into a garden, you can imagine what that restored city will be like.
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