bible trees

I've always been curious about some trees that are spoken of in the Bible, what they looked like and stuff. So I found some pictures. The conjoined tree is a fig, and the other is an acacia tree. This may be old hat information to ye all, but I was totally fascinated. The fig tree's title was "Married", because it's conjoined as you can see. It got me to thinking a whole lot about my marriage... This lady at work asked me out of the blue, "What's the #1 thing you love about your husband?" I told her, "that he loves Jesus." She immediately responded with, "well fine then, what's the second thing." As if loving Jesus wasn't worth mentioning and didn't satisfy as a real answer! It's quite impossible to explain to someone of the world how Jesus is everything in the relationship and that a man just can't be a husband without Him. Everything else seemed so silly to comment on because everything I love in Brady comes from Jesus anyways! So anyways...this "Marriage" fig tree. Reminds me of what a good marriage should have. Deep roots that take tiiiiiime, co-dependent for survival, happy to share space, stronger together than apart... I've been asking God to show me stuff about being a wife that I'd rather ignore these days. I want to recognize the unconscious fleshy things that I do that cause division in our little household. It's so easy to act as if I'm still single and forget that another of God's creations lives right there by my side, a precious gift. God is so good at answering those tough prayers... ug. I guess our roots are just starting. What an amazing "conjoining" I get to work on for as long as God decides to let us be sojourners together here on earth. Well, "Kapoy ko" (I'm tired). Glad tidings ye all..
p.s. I know there's a whole lot of types of acacia trees, but according to geographic reasoning, the one I pictured above is likely the kind used for the making of the Ark. Noah must have felled an entire forest er something!