Bone Season

When All is Laid Bare

Friends,

Somewhere between our last storm and now, Bone Season arrived.

The naked season, when trees stripped bare

tell

tell

tell

how they lived

before their leaves flew.

Evidence . . . in trunks, limbs, spindly branches,

in the bones of those uncloaked trees.

Stories for all to see.

Of growth habits:

some tangled,

some straight and strong.

Stories of the company they kept,

for good . . .

or ill.

And of whether there’s soundness or rot

in their heartwood.

It’s a season that compels me to shed my own leaves

and take a look.

You, too?

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“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.” —Luke 8:17

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“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” —Psalm 139:23-24

Watching Nature, Seeing Life: Through His Creation, God Speaks.

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Love,

Cheryl