I’ve mentioned Zacchaeus a couple of times: one referring to Jesus’ relaxed attitude toward time and another, more recently, about meeting God in ordinary places.

Henry Brown, my friend and faithful reader of this blog, recently returned from a trip to the Middle East sent me this picture of “Zacchaeus’ Tree.”

To be sure, since this tree is only a couple hundred years old, Zacchaeus wouldn’t have been in this tree! But he was in a tree like this and not far from where this tree is. We are reminded that events described in the Bible are about real people in real places, and, mostly NOT in church!

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. (2 Peter 1.16, NKJV)