I was headed to a local wildlife management area before the world fully woke up, camera bag on the seat beside me, fog still thick across the fields. That is when I noticed the trees. Two of them, standing in perfect alignment with one another, maybe twenty feet apart. The one closest to the pond’s edge was full — genuinely, quietly full. The other stood at that twenty-foot distance from the water and it showed. Same pasture. Same sky. Same drought. Twenty feet of distance from the source, and two entirely different realities. I have lived in both of those trees.
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Verse & Vision | June 6, 2026
The rich young ruler kept every commandment and still walked away sad. Jesus didn’t argue with his failure – He confirmed it. Impossible for men, He said, without flinching. He named the wall before He told you what breaks through it. This post digs into the Greek word behind “impossible,” the first-century theology that made the disciples’ astonishment make sense, and what it means that the only variable between adynata and possible is the nearness of God.