Be a FIG and DIG This is one of those days when you think you are doing one thing, and you end up doing another. I thought I was going to be writing about “BALANCE,” you know—“to everything there is a season.” Instead, I have spent the morning doing some study about fig trees in the Bible. Yes, I said “fig trees,” those things that cover Adam and Eve’s nakedness and signs of the Hebrew People’s abundance and plenty during King Solomon’s time (Genesis 3:7 and 1 Kings 4:25). The stories most often retold about “figs” in the Bible are the account of Jesus cursing the tree that does not bear fruit, and the parable of the gardener bartering one more year during which he will work diligently to make a fig tree produce fruit. I looked at 44 instances of “figs” which are medicine, food, abundance, sweet, shade giving and a long lived symbol of peace, and I found the parable of summer. How did I miss this figgy morsel? It...
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