What Does Green Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

To perish is to be undone. Loveless thoughts are not hunted down and destroyed; they are unmade, and what was never true leaves no hole behind when it goes. That single change of meaning turns a promise of ruin into a statement of Atonement, the correction in which an error simply ceases and everything real is left exactly as it was.

What waits at the end of such thoughts is a dismissal rather than a sentence. No case brought against a child of God can be made to stand, because every piece of its evidence was gathered inside a dream, and a hearing with no evidence closes without a punishment to arrange. Even the ego, the belief in separation that keeps producing these thoughts, is not put to death. It is reinterpreted and set to work releasing the mind from fear, so nothing promised to the righteous ever waited on an enemy's ruin.

Waiting patiently means the end of straining. A mind that gives up forcing its own resolution leaves room for a Voice that speaks in its own way and its own hour, telling it what it is and what it can do with its strength restored to it. Fretting is the refusal to wait that long, and it changes nothing except the peace of the one who frets.

Rest of that kind carries a mind through storms and pain, through loss and through death itself, and sets it down undismayed in certainty. The quiet was never private. What is given in rest today has already been received, so a brother can be offered all of it without anything being spent.

• Evildoers: loveless thoughts held in the mind, whose end is their undoing rather than their destruction
• The grass and the green herb: the brief look of substance such a thought wears, having no life of its own to hold
• The green bay tree: the impressive spread of what has no root in truth, looked for afterward and found nowhere
• The sword and the bow: attack aimed outward from fear, reaching no heart except the one that drew it