A Branch...

... mixed right in the middle of history.

Jesse the stem.
And from it, redemption slips right in. 

Silent nite, when all was bright. 
On a cross his body lay. 

Victory for eternity.
Sin gone in a single day.

Zechariah 3:8b - "I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.  See the stone I have set in front of Joshua!  There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day."

Revelation 5:5b - "See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed.  He is able to open the scroll and the its seven seals."

(pic taken 2011 from our back deck)