Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37 Can dry bones hear? The Lord took hold of Ezekiel and carried him off to a valley filled with bones. This was all very real to Ezekiel. He does not say he had a vision, nor does he use any language suggesting that it only seemed that he was in a valley filled with bones. He was there – bones all around him. He could feel the hot sun on his back, and hear the drone of the lone fly buzzing around. He could hear the sounds of desert insects. I remember those sounds. I grew up on the northern edge of the Great Basin Desert. According to Wikipedia, it covers much of, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon and California. Dry skeletons of cattle or coyotes were not that rare, but I never saw a human skeleton, let alone a whole valley full of them. I picture the dry sandy soil. I feel the hot dry air that must have surrounded Ezekiel. Ezekiel is drawing a picture for us. Can you walk with Ezekiel as he looks around the valley? As he walked among the bones, E