The Testimony of a Tree - Cade Wood
As I read through a few of the blog posts, I see where people are commenting a lot about The Dream of the Rood poem. I understand why now that I have read it fully. This is super powerful. Whether the dream actually happened or not, the testimony of the tree used in the crucifixion of the God of the Universe is incredible. Lines 53-55 and 57-58 stood out to me the most. They said, "I saw the God of Hosts stretched on the rack; darkness covered the corpse of the Ruler.. All creation wept, wailed for the death of the King. Christ was on the cross."
The question that pops into my head when reading lines 53-55 is how can a tree recognize that it is being used to crucify the God of all creation, and the human beings that are doing so cannot? Honestly, none of the people who begged for Jesus' crucifixion were exempt from the miracles he performed. They may not have physically been there in person, but that must have heard about it. I have read the story tons of times from all the gospels, and I still just can't wrap my head around how that missed it so big. But then again, honestly we as humans do the same thing every day, so i guess a better question is how do we/I miss it so big? Next, in lines 57-58 the tree talks about the weeping of all creation. Eliza pointed this out in a comment on someone's blog post and I thought it was so cool. Sometimes creation has a better view of God than we do, and we get to interact with him daily. I never really realized how true that was until i read through Hannah's blog post where she referenced Psalm 66:4. I had seen that verse before, but never really recognized its significance until now. The verse says, I'm paraphrasing of course, that all of creation will worship God. Until now, I had just skimmed over that verse and not really worried about it. I now understand that every animate and inanimate object, not only has the capacity to, but does worship God constantly. This is eye opening to me personally because I, like I have said before, don't always choose God. Seeing that the rest of creation does gives me more of a motivation to do so.
I commented on Sophia's and Hannah's posts.
The question that pops into my head when reading lines 53-55 is how can a tree recognize that it is being used to crucify the God of all creation, and the human beings that are doing so cannot? Honestly, none of the people who begged for Jesus' crucifixion were exempt from the miracles he performed. They may not have physically been there in person, but that must have heard about it. I have read the story tons of times from all the gospels, and I still just can't wrap my head around how that missed it so big. But then again, honestly we as humans do the same thing every day, so i guess a better question is how do we/I miss it so big? Next, in lines 57-58 the tree talks about the weeping of all creation. Eliza pointed this out in a comment on someone's blog post and I thought it was so cool. Sometimes creation has a better view of God than we do, and we get to interact with him daily. I never really realized how true that was until i read through Hannah's blog post where she referenced Psalm 66:4. I had seen that verse before, but never really recognized its significance until now. The verse says, I'm paraphrasing of course, that all of creation will worship God. Until now, I had just skimmed over that verse and not really worried about it. I now understand that every animate and inanimate object, not only has the capacity to, but does worship God constantly. This is eye opening to me personally because I, like I have said before, don't always choose God. Seeing that the rest of creation does gives me more of a motivation to do so.
I commented on Sophia's and Hannah's posts.
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