California Redwood "All the trees of the forest will know that I the Lord bring down the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish ‘I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.’” Ezekiel 17:24 It was an amazing experience standing among the majestic California Redwoods. Their unbelievable height and the width at their base suggested strength. For me, the majesty and strength is a sense of the sacred, a feeing of a holy place, of God's presence. Just as a sunrise, a panoramic mountain view, or being by a peaceful ocean creates a sense of God's presence, so do the Redwood trees. The most familiar visions in Ezekiel are the Wheel representing his prophetic call and the Valley of Dry Bones Representing a revitalized Israel coming home. But there is a dark story. Nebuchadnezzar ordered King Zedekiah deported to Babylon, destroyed the city walls of Jerusalem, looted, burned, and leveled the temple. In the wake of these simu...