Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Maylan Schurch
Friday, May 3, 2024
On my usual brisk after-breakfast walk this past Monday, I was delighted to discover this little scene in someone’s front yard. As I’ve observed over the past couple of weeks, these homeowners have been seeking to improve their yard by first of all acquiring small landscaping blocks and mortaring them together to enclose some decorative rocks, as you see at the lower left.
And now they’ve turned their attention to the patch of grass, and have cordoned this off with yellow tape and a firm “No Trespassing” sign. I’m not exactly sure what they have yet done to the grass to make it too sensitive to human footfalls, but you see what I see.
But what gave me the grins was the tranquil bunny parked on the grass, totally oblivious to the meaning of the sign or the yellow tape.
It makes me think of the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 3, when Adam and Eve chose to distrust God’s words in favor of the snake’s, God banished the couple from the Garden, specifically so that they would not continue to eat from the Tree of Life, and this become eternal sinners. And after the couple had walked out through Eden’s entrance, God placed a very effective “No Trespassing” message there — an angel with a sword.
But threading its way through the centuries since then, the Gospel story—growing in clarity and culminating in Christ—reveals to us, in the last chapter of “The Revelation of Jesus Christ,” the joyous truth that Eden will be open to us again!
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever. (Revelation 22:1 – 5 NKJV)
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