From Death to life

This is something I got from an e-mail from Varya, a wonderful friend in Israel and I thought was something that I would share.....

This is something very special that touched my heart deeply this last week:

I found a broken tree trunk in the street on my way home about three months ago. Its branches were all broken, but I took it home because it was beautiful and I was hoping maybe one branch would survive. It didn't, so I had to cut it off and just left this stump at home for some reason, and then almost forgot about it. For about three months it looked totally dead... and now, look, what happened - it budded! all of a sudden I saw one big bud and then about 5 more small ones all over it! It is so beautiful and encouraging to see how life prevails in all of His Creation. No matter how dead it may look, God can bring it back to life some day!

The nature so reflects His character and even His plan of salvation. Isaiah 11 clearly speaks about the Messiah and refers to Him metaphorically as "a shoot" that "will come up from the stump of Jesse" (Jesse - the line of King David: Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of King David).

Here are the photos of my resurrected stump :-)




























This year may we all see a lot of beautiful resurrections in our lives, in the lives of our families and friends, and in the lives of the people of our nations!

Many Blessings,
Varya