Mia asked, "Who planted it?"

Trees are good, ancient in wisdom. They talk to me, their tales turn my heart to smiles and my heart to prayers. Hemlocks are especailly slow, but also deeply thoughtful. Willows are full of fancy and I dance as we sing together. Oaks, well there are so many kinds...and to find the spokestree is not always easy. I fancy Threegreenia myself, but then our history together is a long one. So many trees, so many songs, so many stories. But The Tree. No, I do not believe it was planted; rather, it IS -- God formed, formed of God, sword shielded from stolen glances -- full of wormswood if we turn our minds to pick from it. It's not that the apples are bad; the evil is in the pride of stealing ownership. One bite and then Death.

While the day and the week are still with us, let us say a goodbye
in song and praise until we meet back here next Monday!

You are invited to come share coffee and donuts with us
 at Maple Street Church; we'll be singing and listening
to the Good News, and then having a bit more fellowship
before going on our ways. Our coming together is always
filled with honesty and joy. We never meet strangers!

If you are too far away to be with us in person, the sermon will be up on the net
at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBpAAJcjtrPmDHv_OACqDFw

Wherever you are, I pray that you find a fellowship and congregation of
brothers and sisters in the Lord who will open their hearts to you.

So, now:

Holy! Holy! Holy!
is the Lord God Almighty
who was and is,
and is to come!

Exodus 15:2 The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

Psalm 150 Let Everything Praise the Lord

Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
    praise him in his mighty heavens!
2 Praise him for his mighty deeds;
    praise him according to his excellent greatness!

3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
    praise him with lute and harp!
4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
    praise him with strings and pipe!
5 Praise him with sounding cymbals;
    praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord!

Praise the Lord!