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Imagining the Lectionary: Branching Out (Easter 5B)
Reflection accompanying images “I am the vine you are the branches”, “Old Victorian Greenhouse detail” and
“Old Victorian Greenhouse with gardener potting plants”
Jesus had a photographer's eye. Because his teaching and conversation was enriched by images drawn from the everyday world that was his context for ministry, his word pictures remain wonderfully evocative to this day. Looking at an old vine growing along the back wall of a large Victorian Greenhouse one enters into the imagination of Jesus as he speaks to his friends of the intimacy and inspiration which are essential to their being in an enduring relationship with him. Seeing the fresh foliage that is gracing the gnarled, woody and long established vine with tender new life we understand what Jesus is getting at when he says:
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,
while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already
clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch
can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.
Continues...
THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011
by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide
Reflection accompanying images “I am the vine you are the branches”, “Old Victorian Greenhouse detail” and
“Old Victorian Greenhouse with gardener potting plants”
Jesus had a photographer's eye. Because his teaching and conversation was enriched by images drawn from the everyday world that was his context for ministry, his word pictures remain wonderfully evocative to this day. Looking at an old vine growing along the back wall of a large Victorian Greenhouse one enters into the imagination of Jesus as he speaks to his friends of the intimacy and inspiration which are essential to their being in an enduring relationship with him. Seeing the fresh foliage that is gracing the gnarled, woody and long established vine with tender new life we understand what Jesus is getting at when he says:
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,
while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already
clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch
can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.
Continues...
THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011
by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide
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