Tree of Life: Celtic Prayers to the Universal Christ

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation for through him God created everything. . . . He existed before anything else and he holds all creation together.-Colossians 1:15-17Like a vast ever-growing Tree of Life Christ-the expression of Divine love-expands endlessly throughout the universe. This is the perspective of ancient Celtic spirituality and it is this concept that Ray Simpson reveals in his poem-prayers. Inspired by the traditional Celtic style of prayer he gives words to our individual relationships with God. He speaks of the wonder beauty and love revealed through the Universal Christ the Tree of Life that includes all that is. Each and everything in creation is sacred for everything is a word of God-and we too are called to be Gods words to our world.