Treedom
Sept 27 2025
The view of a great oak tree loomed over her. Filly looked at it with interest. It had the beautiful early morning low angle lighting, with sun shining on the branches and illuminating the leaves. It was quite the picture. So Filly took a picture of it. “This is what treedom looks like she thought to herself”.
She thought about the tree as representative of the family tree.
It was rooted in ground. So it had a deep structure from which grew great limbs with were the matriarchs and patriarchs. Then those limbs had branches. The branches were families. And the twigs were the little children. All were connected. All had their proper place.
SO Filly wondered, what were the leaves? After thinking about this a moment, she remembered a little video she had done herself of a flaming red leaf floating down the street eventually to float and disappear into the gutter. The leaf looked like a little red heart from a distance. She remembered filming it.
So Filly decided that if the leaf was representative of a heart, then the leaves were all evidence of love in the family. They (the leaves) absorbed the love from above (God’s love) from the sun, and they used that love to produce oxygen…something that is necessary for life.
Think of all the love expressed towards humanity from just a tree. Think of how much more love people are capable of expressing if they want to.
Filly thought of how a leaf that is separate from the tree, might draw attention to itself, but not for long. It cannot make use of the sun any more. And because it is not rooted at its base or attached to any branches, it ends up in the gutter eventually. Very sad.
Filly thought of people who distanced themselves from the sun, like leaves fallen away from the tree…from their family, and from the source of all that is good. It would lead inevitably to self destruction if not resolved…like a leaf in the gutter.
She prayed for all the people who thought of themselves as a bright unique leaf, separate from all their relatives…rejecting traditional family value systems. They were still beautiful, and still part of the family, but they, by their own choices, were preventing themselves from the ability to have any impact on the life of the tree or the life of other leaves. Once they disconnected, in favor of being able to float and go with the flow… that “highlight” experience was very temporary, and then it was over. The best place to stand out, Filly thought, was to stay with the tree.
People could either be like Saul, who persecuted Christians, until he became blinded on the road to Damascus, and he repented of his evil doing and had a conversion, and stopped persecuting the Christians, and became Paul. Or they could stay Saul, and keep listening to the suggestions of evil, and eventually float away into the gutter, where they would stay.
Being a leaf that rejected family values and did not stay with the tree like all the other leaves in season, was also against two commandments.. Not honoring father and mother, and bearing false witness against neighbor (and self). A person had to accept who God made them in order to obey the commandments. They did not have to accept any distortion presented to them by the suggestions of evil.
Filly picked out her randomly chosen bible verse for the day.
9 Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, 10 which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.
Filly interpreted this to mean that the scroll is made from the tree. The leaves that Filly talked about, were analogous of the scroll…which offered lament and mourning and woe. To eat that scroll was to stop allowing it speak evil or have any control in a person’s life.
Then that person could experience Treedom.
