On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there.
Acts 16:13 NRSV https://bible.com/bible/2016/act.16.13.NRSV
On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:2 NRSV
https://bible.com/bible/2016/rev.22.2.NRSV
The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us. May God continue to bless us; let all the ends of the earth revere him.
Psalms 67:6-7 NRSV
https://bible.com/bible/2016/psa.67.6-7.NRSV
And this from Tolkien, shared with us this morning…
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
Takeley Chapel 