Christmas trees are everywhere… You can’t escape them!
Musing… on Christmas trees, and Biblical trees…
This is artist David Hockney’s latest work ‘Bigger Christmas Trees’ at London’s Battersea Power Station, Apple’s U.K. headquarters. Each night in December until Christmas Day, a pair of Christmas trees will light up this London landmark.
Hockney drew his design on an iPad Pro using Apple Pencil.
Hockney’s creative genius, a team of expert designers at Apple, together with Apple’s technological expertise and huge resources, created this stunning 10-minute animation that transforms the 100-metre-high chimneys.
Musing… The Bible starts with a creative-genius God, with limitless expertise and resources, creating the world – and trees.
Granddaughter-Hannah posted two pictures of her by a Christmas tree… as a young child with brother-Zak in Brazil…
…and one this year as a student, a young woman, in Canterbury.
Musing… The repeated Bible-image of the healthy tree planted by a river – that grows strong roots, bears fruit, is healthy and flourishing…
Musing… On how Hannah has grown, changed, developed, matured, the positive influences on Hannah’s life that have given her strong roots and enabled her to flourish…
This is our church Christmas tree… For hundreds of years Christians have had ‘Christ-mas’ trees. They were originally decorated with candles, now with electric lights, as a picture of Jesus, the light of the world. At the top of the tree is usually the Bethlehem star (or sometimes the angel Gabriel).
Next to our church Christmas tree is the cross. Yesterday I read Peter’s words: ‘He bore our sins in his body on the tree…’
Musing… The Bible starts in Genesis with creation; God puts the tree of life in the Garden of Eden. It ends in Revelation with redemption, healing and reconciliation; the tree of life is in heaven.
Between them we have the Christmas tree, reminding us of Jesus, the light of the world, who brings us his life, health, forgiveness and assurance that all will finally be resolved.
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Also, between the first tree and the end tree, Christ “himself bore our sins in his body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24) – the bridge between the 2 trees.
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Indeed – as above 🙂. I was interested to read that it was Luther and the reformation folk who introduced Christmas trees as a Christian symbol.
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Thank you for this interesting chronology of trees-Christmas and Biblical. 🙂
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Thanks, Nancy. I was interested to notice that some folks have thought that the triangle shape reminds is of the trinity, some have sugested that its evergreen nature speaks of eternal life, some think that they look like an arrow pointing to heaven… and so on!
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