A Blessing to Eat from the Tree of Life

I bless your heart’s longing

To be drawn to

The Tree of Life,

Never to

The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,

That wicked “do to be Tree” (see Dudley Hall, Grace Works)

That promises:

“If you do more…

If you will grasp at the one forbidden tree,

If you will perform,

Then, your eyes will be opened

And you will be like God.” (see Gen. 3:5)

Instead,

I bless you to hunger for

The Tree of Life –

The “Be To Do Tree,”

The grace of God Tree

That assures –

You already are like God,

Made in His image.

That lives loved,

Lives by gift,

Is empowered by

The very Life of Christ.

May you feast today

Upon the Tree of Life

And savor the grace of God.