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Easter XI

Healing
Part II: Trees

One of this Sundayโ€™s passages is Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21.

As one commentator summarized it: โ€œThe conclusion of Revelation has seemed to many interpreters to be a bit choppy, a barely-held-together conglomeration of leftover pieces, stumbling toward the close of the book.โ€ Iโ€™ll say.

Earlier this week I heard a sermon which dealt with the morass of endings by focusing on one image from the text: the tree of life. Just that phrase took me like a hyperlink to one of the most healing images of my own life time . . . . the tree of life.

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