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A year ago while in the high desert of Central Oregon during the Feast of Tabernacles<\/strong> (Sukkot), I wrote a hymn about a giant ponderosa pine tree, while sitting on the banks of the Deschutes Rivers. As I gazed at and pondered it, I saw it singing a silent praise hymn to the Creator, the Almighty Yehovah Elohim. You can find this psalm below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, I found myself at another river celebrating Sukkot with my wife, this time in southern Central Oregon being amazed by another giant, majestic and ancient ponderosa pine tree. This time, I made a pen and ink drawing of this 500-year-old behemoth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are my poem and my pen and ink drawing showcased together..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are a couple of pictures of the actual tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The inspiration of this poem and its birth occurred while sitting next to the Deschutes River in La Pine, Oregon, during Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles) in 2018, while gazing admiringly at the mighty, towering ponderosa pine trees (Pinus ponderosa<\/em>) that stand as sentinels gracing its banks. At the same time, the words of the First Psalm were floating around in the author\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Pinus1<\/sup> ponderosa2<\/sup><\/em> at De Falls3<\/sup> River waters4<\/sup>;<\/p>

A weighty5<\/sup> giant pondering6<\/sup> heavenly matters. <\/p>

Rejecting your former blackjack7<\/sup> past,<\/p>

Basking now in heaven\u2019s light at last.<\/p>

Arms and trunks are tanned a bright orange hue8<\/sup>,<\/p>

With muscular limbs upraised in praise to You9<\/sup>\u2014<\/p>

To the Messiah, the radiant Sun of Righteousness10<\/sup>!<\/p>

O piney tree by the rivers of water,<\/p>

With crown aimed high\u2014you\u2019re a leafy psalter11<\/sup>.<\/p>

The still small breath12<\/sup> of heaven\u2019s heart,<\/p>

Strums happily your needley harp,<\/p>

To all who\u2019re attuned in full amaze\u2014<\/p>

And hear the Spirit\u2019s psalm of praise.<\/p>

La Pinus ponderosa<\/em> by De Falls River\u2019s edge\u2014<\/p>

Precariously planted on the sloping ledge?<\/p>

Gravity inexorably can\u2019t make you slip,<\/p>

As you mock the current\u2019s undercutting grip13<\/sup>.<\/p>

Against the storms you\u2019re resolute, <\/p>

Exempt from its slavish tribute.<\/p>

The desert\u2019s torrid breath can\u2019t make you wilt14<\/sup>.<\/p>

It underestimates how well you\u2019re built.<\/p>

For deeply rooted are your hairy feet,<\/p>

As they sate their thirst from the summer\u2019s heat14<\/sup>.<\/p>

Anchored firmly against the gale.<\/p>

From brutal breezes that do assail.<\/p>

Resting on the solid Rock15<\/sup>,<\/p>

Heat and wind they can\u2019t you shock16<\/sup>.<\/p>

To the bank of Truth17<\/sup> you tenaciously cling,<\/p>

Imbibing the Spiritual life14<\/sup> the waters bring.<\/p>

As Heaven\u2019s wind18<\/sup> fills your leafy sail,<\/p>

You clap your hands19<\/sup> as me you regale.<\/p>

O Pinus<\/em> preacher at the River Deschutes,<\/p>

You cry aloud from roots to shoots.<\/p>

A riveting sermon loud and clear<\/p>

To open ears both far and near.<\/p>

Quietly praising the King above,<\/p>

Silent shouting of heaven\u2019s love!<\/p>

Puzzle letters from your massive girth20<\/sup>,<\/p>

A visible testament fall to the earth.<\/p>

Of heaven\u2019s radiance they joyously glow,<\/p>

Trampled by naive hikers there below.<\/p>

But when combined these letters spell,<\/p>

The truth of heavens evangel21<\/sup>.<\/p>

This tree\u2019s a wellspring of worshipful praise,<\/p>

In every tongue with limbs upraised!<\/p>

La Pine\u2019s1<\/sup> ponderosas who grace your river blue,<\/p>

There is much for me to learn from you.<\/p>

Your arms point upwards in heaven\u2019s praise,<\/p>

Past you to Him, my eyes I\u2019ll raise22<\/sup>!<\/p>

This is my heartfelt prayer to You:<\/p>

With Your Spirit and Truth23<\/sup> my heart imbue.<\/p>

From Your tree of life24<\/sup> I\u2019ll always feed<\/p>

Producing an abundance of living seed.<\/p>

May I be too a tree of life,<\/p>

That my heart-would25<\/sup> with your words be rife.<\/p>

Amein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Footnotes\u2014The Poem Explained<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

1 A reference to La Pine, Oregon where the mighty ponderosa pines there inspired the author to write this poem. In fact, the ponderosa pine with the largest trunk diameter in the world of nine feet two inches is located in La Pine State Park\u2014the location where the author commenced writing this poem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 The Latin name for the ponderosa pine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 The name Deschutes<\/em> is a French word meaning \u201cof the or some waterfalls or rapids.\u201d The Deschutes River of Central Oregon that flows through La Pine State Park in La Pine, Oregon has plenty of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 The phrases \u201criver waters,\u201d \u201crivers of waters\u201d and the like throughout this poem are hints to the first Psalm, verse three, which was in the author\u2019s mind when writing this hymn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 \u201cWeighty\u201d is a wordplay on the word ponderosa<\/em>, which derives from the Latin word ponderosus <\/em>meaning, among other things, \u201cponderous, massive or weighty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6 A wordplay on ponderosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7 Juvenile ponderosa pines have black bark and are colloquially known as blackjack pines. This suggests, in poetic terms, a dark, dirty and sinful youthful past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8 The older a ponderosa pine becomes, and the more exposed to the sunlight is, over time, its bark turns from a dark black to a bright golden red-orange color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9 Capitalized personal pronouns in this poem are references to Elohim or Yeshua the Messiah (the God of the Bible).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 This is a biblical reference to Malachi 4:2 where the prophesied Messiah is likened to the sun, for, indeed, as the Bible later reveals, the face of Yeshua the Messiah does, indeed, shine like the sun in its full strength (Rev 1:16). Moreover, the Bible reveals that Messiah is the Light of the world, who shows man the way out of spiritual darkness and into the spiritual light. The implication here is that the more and longer the ponderosa is exposed to the sun, the brighter and sunlight-like its bark becomes. Similarly, the longer a human is exposed to the spiritual light of Messiah, the more like him they will become, and the more they will reflect him in their personality and character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 A psalter is a book full of psalms employed for church liturgical purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 A reference to 1 Kings 19:12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 The Deschutes River, like many mountain rivers, is full of trees that have fallen into the river due to the eroding action of the quickly moving river of the bank on which the trees were precariously perched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14 Again, the first Psalm verse three is in the author\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15 A reference to Yeshua the Messiah, the Rock of our salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16 Plants can go into damaging or fatal shock mode when exposed too quickly to extreme heat and cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 In several places, the Bible talks about the river of life. A river as two important components without which it couldn\u2019t exist: a bank (or a channel) and water. To the author\u2019s mind, the bank is like Truth, while the water is like the Holy or Set-Apart Spirit of Elohim. To be a true follower of Yeshua, one must have both the Truth of the Word of Elohim along with the Spirit of Elohim to understand it and then to live it. Our Father in heaven is seeking those to worship him in both Spirit and Truth (John 4:23\u201324).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18 That is, the Set-Apart Spirit of Elohim. There are a number of references in Scripture to the Spirit of Elohim being like wind (e.g. John 3:8; Acts 2:2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19 The author had Isaiah 55:12 in mind here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20 The older a ponderosa pine becomes, the more scaly its bark becomes, such that puzzle like scales or pieces of bark are constantly falling off of the trunk. The pieces are in all sizes and shapes. They literally look like pieces of a puzzle, and many of those pieces are in the shape of the letters of the alphabet. In fact, one can pick up letters and spell words. Some people even find the letters of their name and mount them on a board as a decorative plaque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21 Or gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22 The author here is reminded of Romans 1:20 where Paul tells us that there is much to be learned about the invisible attributes of Elohim from his visible creation that surrounds us and of which most humans are unaware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

23 This is another reference to the Spirit and Truth passage of John 4:23\u201324.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24 This is an obvious reference to the tree of life in the Garden of Eden. There are a number of other references in Scripture to the tree of life. All of these are metaphors for the Torah\u2013word and wisdom of Elohim that comes through faith in and a relationship with Yeshua the Messiah who redeemed us from our sins by dying on a tree, and from which springs eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25 This is a play on words. The heartwood of a tree is its central part or most interior core, even as the human heart is at the center of the one\u2019s being both literally and spiritually.<\/p>\n

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