castor oil tree stuff

Sitting under that tree has a great so far.

I haven't really shared why I chose this image, this metaphor for my musings. Here's why: Jonah experienced God's call...rejected it; was forced to follow...and did, reluctantly; fulfilled God's promise, though not without confusion and paradox; experienced God's grace in the tree and God's whimsy in the death of the tree and is left by God to figure it all out by himself.

I love a story that ends but isn't resolved. And that's Jonah's story--and mine, by the way...perhaps yours.

So I remain, under the dead tree, scorched by the sun, trying to figure it all out.

That's why I chose this paradigm for life--sitting under the castor oil tree, wondering....

I have to write a sermon so I'll be back when I can, to sit some more and ponder stuff....