Dry "Bones"

Although this is actually a pile of driftwood on an Oregon beach, it looks to me like Ezekiel's valley of dry bones. In that strange prophet's vision, the dry bones represented the deadness and hopelessness of God's people. "Can these bones live?" was Ezekiel's question.

That's our question, too, when death and despair seem to have triumphed. In the vision, the bones assembled themselves, put on flesh, and came to life. It was a promise of hope and renewal which--of course--is also the resurrection promise of the cross.

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