One of the concerns of people protesting the controversial PEI Trans-Canada realignment project, Plan B, is the destruction of trees. And they were on the mind of Joyce Kilmer when he penned the famous poem called “Trees,” ending with the words, “Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.” Did you know that a tree has cells similar to those in a human body? A spruce tree has an estimated ten to fourteen billion cells, each of which is like a miniature factory. Why is there such a reluctance to credit God with a direct creative act and credit “mother nature?” Science tells us what happens, but not why. But Paul, in the New Testament, wrote, “…Since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made….” And the God who made the tree made you and me. But unlike a tree, we have immortal souls and we are accountable to Him.

Pastor Alex Rockwell