Pioneer Park on Mercer Island the Center of Lake Washington
Coming to you from Pioneer Park on Mercer Island
It’s Monday and the start of a brand-new week at Pioneer Park on Mercer Island. I’d like to invite you to join me for a few minutes on today’s edition of My Rhymes and Reasons. I’m your host, Greg Asimakoupoulos, greeting you from one of my favorite locations: Pioneer Park on Mercer Island in the center of Lake Washington. A floating Bridge from downtown Seattle connects it.
Many people who hear Mercer Island in Suburban Seattle think it’s one of the San Juan Islands. No, it’s a standalone island in the middle of Lake Washington, just 10 minutes from downtown Seattle. Today, on a walk, I encountered a decaying tree; much of the tree had decomposed from termites or whatever had eaten away at its trunk.
All that is left is, well, you see it standing here surrounded at the base by a growth of Ivy. I’m noticing that near the top of this trunk and what is left is Ivy, which is growing from the very top of this decomposing stump.
It led me to think back to that scripture in Isaiah chapter 11, verse 1, where we’re told that from the stump of Jesse, Shute will grow and that Shute will be the root of something that will bear much fruit. That passage of scripture has Messianic implications. The stump of Jesse refers to King.
