by Sarah Dixon Young
VEINS, photograph by Sarah Dixon Young
In His death, Jesus united the tree as a symbol of a righteous man with the tree as a symbol of a self-emptying death, giving a full picture of fruitful, everlasting life. His veins were emptied, just as the veins of a leaf are emptied when summer ripens to autumn. This cottonwood leaf shimmered in the fading sun, a reminder that though life ebbs out of these veins, the promise of resurrective spring will never fade.
SARAH DIXON YOUNG
Sarah Dixon Young loves reading, writing, and living stories. Adventure stories are her favorite. Her writing has been featured in The Clayjar Review, StoryWarren, the Bammerhab Podcast, and the Devils Lake Journal. She is the author of God on a Shelf and The Winning of Lady Wisdom and is looking forward to the forthcoming publication of a middle grade trilogy through Bandersnatch Books. Sarah lives with her husband and children on a reservation in the Midwest.
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