The Two Trees (13 of 33)

[Meditations are intended to be read sequentially, from 1 to 33.]

Again on the Hill …

“Fear God and all will be well.” There it is again — that thought. What does it mean to fear God? Why, how, is it that “all will be well?”

The man who brought us to the Hill has been gone for a long time. Perhaps it was all a dream? A hoax even? Maybe it would be better in the Garden. Had the man ever been to the Garden? Perhaps he led us the wrong way? Maybe he can be found in the Garden?

“No.”

He clearly said that he was on his way to the kingdom. He bid us come, did he not? What was his name? “Fear God and all will be well. Fear God and all will be well. Fear God and will be well ….”

“I fear that I am lost,” we say. There, off in the distance, is the Garden. So inviting. So familiar. We’ve spent so much time there, in the Garden. It looks like home.

It is home. “Leave your cross and receive your crown, your reward,” bids the creature.

So be it.

… it is so.