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Intro:

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Every life has a story …

If we only bother to read it!

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Comparison … tree … exterior vs. interior

Dendrochronology — tree-ring dating

Dendronchronology

scientific method of dating tree rings (or growth rings)

Able to the know the year they were formed

Able to analyze conditions during different periods in history

Atmospheric Conditions

Drought

Abundance of water

Environmental Conditions

Crowding

Pressure from another tree

Forest fires

It’s useful in determining timing of events & rates of change in the environment

New growth in trees occurs in a layer of cells near the bark.

A tree's growth rate changes in a predictable pattern throughout the year in response to seasonal climate changes, resulting in visible growth rings.

Each ring marks a complete cycle of seasons, or one year, in the tree's life.[1]

As of 2013, the oldest tree-ring measurements in the Northern Hemisphere are a floating sequence extending from about 12,580 to 13,900 years.[2] Dendrochronology derives from Ancient Greek: δένδρον (dendron), meaning "tree", χρόνος (khronos), meaning "time", and -λογία (-logia), "the study of".

New growth in trees occurs in a layer of cells near the bark

Growth at the edges

Examine the inside to know what the outside was facing

Tree's growth rate changes in a predictable pattern throughout the year in response to seasonal climate changes, resulting in visible growth rings.

Each ring marks a complete cycle of seasons, or one year, in the tree's life.

Dendrochronology derives from Ancient Greek:

Dendrochronology derives from Ancient Greek:

δένδρον (dendron), meaning "tree"

χρόνος (khronos), meaning "time"

-λογία (-logia), "the study of”

The plaque explained that the rings of a tree not only reveal its age, but also the environmental conditions in any given year—whether there had been a lot of rain or very little, for example.

Some rings even indicated forest fires.

If this old tree could talk, it would sure tell us a lot.

Some rings even indicated forest fires.

If this old tree could talk, it would sure tell us a lot.

But trees can’t talk

If this old tree could talk, it would sure tell us a lot, I thought.

But trees can’t talk.

They can reflect the past, but they cannot tell us how they felt during certain events or what they learned.

HOWEVER, they can reflect the past

NOT SO WITH PEOPLE

People can talk

People can act

People can react

People can respond

People can remember

People can forget

All of this works to tell us a story ...

Every life has a story …

If we only bother to read it!

The Story of You

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[1] As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.

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so my soul pants for you, my God.

Look at the present

Look at desperation

[2] My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When can I go and meet with God?

When can I go and meet with God?

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Look at results … this is the outcome

My soul thirsts

Where can I meet God

“Where can I go and meet God?”

[3] My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long,

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day and night,

“Where is your God?”

while people say to me all day long,

Transitions to a really rotten season of his life...

Then transitions to a really rotten season of his life...

“my tears have been my food day & night”

faces the persecution of others … “Where is your God?”

Transitions to looking to the past

“Where is your God?”

[4] These things I remember as I pour out my soul:

as I pour out my soul:

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how I used to go to the house of God

how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.

under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.

Used to go

with shouts of joy and praise

Used to celebrate

He is remembering God’s work

“Remember” = “mark”

among the festive throng.

He was marking a time in his life when God’s house & God’s people were a priority

His life was filled w/praise & worship

Transitions to inside look

Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

for I will yet praise him,

my Savior and my God.