From Tree to Tree

You had to have known what was going to come. And the cost of making it go away.

How many walks in the garden with amazed children passed before it was time - time to test their wings and if they loved you? You knew what was going to come, and what it'd take to make it go away.

Did you linger as the day approached knowing what your presence kept at bay? But you knew what must come, and what it'd take to make it go away.

On a cruel hill, it was demonstrated what it meant to completely love and obey: obedience, a tree, and the garden of Gethsemane. It was an awful twist to make it go away.

There was darkness as your turned your back to the pain and cost. Was this the first time you turned in such a way or the second?

NOTE:

I do not mean this in any way irreverently. I'm trying with brutish brush strokes to paint a scene of God's love of man and wonder about some of the details not mentioned in the Genesis account. That God loved man, the proof is at the cross. Given that love, and his knowledge of all the pain that would follow, I'm just imagining the pain of a parent that must eventually step aside and let a child make their own decisions. Where there is no choice, there is no love. The just have always walked by faith. I'm just thinking here.

AI Disclaimer - AI was used to generate the image with prompts including tree, cross, and fruit.

3/15/25 - First draft

3/20/25 - Published, Title modification.