Tree Devotionals (Contain Bible Verses, so enter at your own risk)
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I will try to clarify. This is a topic I do not know very well, I’ve never studied very deeply the Neanderthal and other hominids and where they fit in the Bible. I have been doing some interesting reading today though to try to do some more learning, in between church this morning and a Mother’s Day dinner.
Neanderthals are in fact Homo Sapiens, as the article I referenced explains, they are specifically Homo Sapien Neanderthalis where present day humans are Homo Sapien Sapien. The difference could well be that the Neanderthals were a more perfect human than we are today, with fewer genetic mutations, and some if not most of the differences in appearance would have been caused by their living hundreds of years.
The article discusses the Austrolopithecines, which I know even less about, so I won’t try to explain something I really don’t know. My understanding though is that it is possible they were not a human at all, they may have been an ape that had a bone structure more human like than most apes of today. I am not certain of that though, as I did not read that section of the article as carefully.
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Here's a tree devotional. A writing from Hermann Hesse, I think.
Trees have always been the most penetrating teachers. I revere them when they live in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons not like hermits who have stolen away put of some weakness, but like great solitary beings. In their boughs the world rustled, in their roots rest in infinity;
But they do not lose themselves, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: To fulfill themselves according to their own laws , to build themselves up in their own form, to represent themselves.
Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, it's scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.
And every young farm boy knows that hardest noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.
Trees have always been the most penetrating teachers. I revere them when they live in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons not like hermits who have stolen away put of some weakness, but like great solitary beings. In their boughs the world rustled, in their roots rest in infinity;
But they do not lose themselves, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: To fulfill themselves according to their own laws , to build themselves up in their own form, to represent themselves.
Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, it's scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.
And every young farm boy knows that hardest noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.
