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The Bible is bookended with trees. In Genesis, the tree of life stands in for the Garden of Eden. In Revelation, the tree represents the restored New Jerusalem, a tree whose leaves “are for the healing of nations.”

“For the beauty of the earth, 
for the glory of the skies, 
for the love which from our birth 
over and around us lies. 
Christ, our Lord, to you we raise 
this, our hymn of grateful praise.” 

Each year, when my students and I travel to Cuernavaca, Mexico to visit with local activists, community builders, human rights workers, and anti-poverty advocates, we meet with a lifelong justice and peace practitioner named Juan Francis

In God's green pasture feeding by His cool waters lie Soft in the evening walk my Lord and I - His Sheep Am I