Epiphany’s Garden Of Beauty
By Dennis Keller
It’s fall, the sun begins to yawn and stretches to begin its annual slumber, the trees begin to shake their clothing of Summer, the grass fades, but the hemlock, spruce continue in their full wardrobe. As the sun fades into full sleep, and near Christ’s birthday on Dec. 25th, God blankets Epiphany with a white velvet that loves the cold. As sunlight hits the snowy cover, thousands of crystals begin a dance, like small puppets. In January and February, Epiphany’s grounds continue to have a splinter of white and dull darkness.
In March, the sun’s furnace is still stoked, but the elm, dogwood, birch begin to bud for their new outfit. In April, God showers the trees and earth, to be ready for the blooming that begins in May. The dogwood tree reportedly made the cross that Christ carried, however, God deemed that dogwoods would never be tall or strong enough to make a cross. God added a small red dot on each flower to remind us of the blood Christ shed for us.
It was WWII, a German soldier was ordered to retreat from the snows of Russia. As he and others started returning to Germany, other German soldiers in the rear would ask the retreating soldiers for the password. They did not know the current password, consequently they were fired upon by their own Army. This German soldier made it.
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