Category: Life and Living

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It’s Christmas Eve, Year I in the Church Calendar, December 24, 2024.

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Today’s songs: Go Tell It On the Mountain (John W. Work Jr.)

Philippians 2:5-11

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Collect of the Day
Fourth Sunday of Advent, Rite Two
Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for himself; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

I think I understand the economic reasons why developers cut down every tree on a lot on which they are going to build—both residential and commercial. But I can’t understand the shortsightedness of ruining a landscape. Drainage, air quality, beauty, shade, etc, etc.

I felt so very seen and heard when I read this Scripture passage today…

When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you? Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

— Deuteronomy 20

Thanks Alan Jacobs and gospelofthetrees.net!