Adventures in prayer
I spent most of today at the botanical gardens, praying, wandering, watching, delighting. Life has been rather hectic lately, and I needed to root myself once again in prayer, in Jesus. How lucky am I that I can spend a day with that as my primary task! The life of a novice, I guess! So, here I will share some pictures, and a few prayerful thoughts. I was so taken by this tree. It's called a Dragon Tree, because the sap is red, and they believed that it was dragon blood. Weird. The sign also said that the sap was used in the varnish for Stradivarius violins, giving them their characteristically reddish tint. As I got closer, I saw how it was growing with those trees around it. A tree in community! Because we've been talking about community and studying how we as a congregation live in community, I found all sorts of meaning in these trees. I sat under them for almost an hour, noticing how they rely on each other for support (notice ...