it was a brilliant green, a little larger than a grass hopper ...
sitting perfectly still on the road .... I carefully picked it up and moved it over
into the grass so no one would run over it ...I was mezmorized by its unique beauty ...
a week or so later, I saw another ..
this time down by the water, on the side of a stump ..
shedding its skin.... I watched fascinated, taking care no one touched it
or harmed it in any way ....I still had no idea what it was ... just that it
was so very attractive that my desire was to protect it from being killed ...
only later, much later, did I learn about the emerald ash borer .....
a stunningly beautiful, seductively attractive killer .....
this thing that is so amazingly attractive
bores into the ash tree ...
bores right to the core, the heart, of the tree ...
unless you look very carefully to find evidence of its route to the core
you would not be aware of its presence ...
it simply hides inside sucking and feeding on the sap,
the lifeblood, of the tree
for some years
until one season the leaves begin to droop a bit,
and then the next season the leaf growth thins out considerably
and then next the branches are totally bare
and the tree begins its quiet inevitable journey into death
and is this not a picture of sin .....
how attractive it can look
how seductively beautiful it can seem
birthing a desire to protect it ..
place it somewhere no one would kill it ....
and before you are aware
this beautiful thing has penetrated right to our core
right into our heart
and unless it is uprooted
and put to death
it will suck the life out of us
and put us to death .....
it is interesting that while some birds might rest on a branch
or take shelter amongst the leaves
no bird ever nests in these infected trees ..
they seem to understand
this is no place to give birth
to bring vulnerable new life into being
is there an emerald ash borer hovering near by
trying to catch my attention ????
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