Mountains - with Trees

A. Unabashed Pacifist:
Does a mountain go to war with a sea because they are different?

B. Unabashed Christian:
Holy One,
Mountains stretch to reach you.
Birds sing love songs to you.
Trees point to you.
Deer run and jump for joy in you.
Plants dress in their finest for you.
Too often, we don’t have a clue.
Amen

C. Unquoting Jesus:
"Someday followers of mine will have jobs as master biscuit makers at Bojangles restaurants."
[Could He have predicted our accomplishments?]

D. Blog: Mountains - With Trees
Mountains – with Trees

Perhaps she has severe allergies. That’s the only explanation that makes sense to me. Why else would she say she prefers living in a place where “the mountains don’t have trees”?

Her comment reminded me of the time our young nieces from Southern California came to visit us in the suburbs of Washington, DC. “There are too many trees!” they said.

I can how understand children who have known only a landscape with few trees could say that. But knowing how vital trees are to our existence, and having a deep appreciation for their beauty and wondrous variety, I do not understand how an intelligent adult, who, like this woman, has lived among mountains with trees for most of her life, can prefer to live in a bare and/or barren mountain setting.

I agree with another relative, my wife’s uncle, who, upon visiting us when we lived in central Illinois, said, “Next time I come, I’ll bring some trees.”

Now consider “developers” (very odd word for what they do) who clear mountainsides of trees in order to build ultra-houses that let the owners look down on the landscape. They scar the mountain landscape and make it an ugly scene for those of us who prefer to look up to mountains – with those amazing trees in place.