#a good tree

[sepulchretide]

My orchard post got over a 100 notes....

[kinixuki]

Photosynthesis

I LIKE GOOD LEAF MADNESS!

I actually really like how this picture turned out, I don't think I was that happy about something I finished for years.... the link has a wallpaper-ish size, I’m not sure how tumblr’s gonna handle it here.

It’s part of my schoolwork from this (and next) semester, I’m trying to fight not being able to properly spend time on my art because of homework by having exactly that as homework because I can :> So I painted bunch of leaves and other things and will keep painting them for a while longer. And sometimes post them?

...SO WHAT ABOUT THE FORESTS?? (nope.)

[scripture-pictures]

[hoooneydew]

hello

[stabbedintheface]

[cyanpeacock]

t is 10:20am and i am geting readty To go outside and climb a tree to read in it

[andrewpcannon]

Servanthood Discipleship

When we teach, we must be as one who is younger. Yes, this is actually commanded in Scripture.

When we think about discipleship, we often think of it in terms of pop-culture rather than true biblical discipleship. We develop a model based more on the relationship between Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker than the relationship that Jesus had with His disciples. Because of this trend in the church, we have developed this environment where Christians who imagine themselves to be mature in the…

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[dialectiics]

Ahlul Bayt (as) and the good tree

Answering a question asked by `Amr ibn Hurayth about the good tree mentioned in the Holy Qur’an, Imam al-Sadiq (a.s) says:

رَسُولُ اللهِ أصْلُهَا، وَأمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ فَرْعُهَا، وَالأئِمَّةُ مِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِهِمَا أغْصَانُهَا، وَعِلْمُ الأئِمَّةِ ثَمَرَتُهَا، وَشِيعَتُهُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَرَقُهَا. وَاللهِ، إنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ لَيُولَدُ فَتُورِقُ وَرَقَةٌ فِيهَا، وَإنَّ الْمُؤْمِنَ لَيَمُوتُ فَتْسُقُطُ وَرَقَةٌ مِنْهَا.

Allah’s Messenger is the root of tree, Amir al-Mu’minin its trunk, the Imams from his issue their branches, the recognition of the Imams its fruit and the believing Shi`ites their leaves. By Allah (I swear), when a believer is born, the tree gives a new leaf; and when a believer dies, a leaf falls off.[1]  

[1] Al-Kafi, 428/1, Tafsir al-Safi, H 886/1.