This week, Clash of the Titles is featuring a rare genre--contemporary allegory.
If you've been itching for something different, this one should do it! The Song of the Tree contains
a message that applies to each of us at some point in our lives. It
moves the God-seeker from fist shaking stance, down to knees before the
throne.
Despite
promises of eternal joy given by the Tree of Life, a privileged young
woman loses everything in a brutal war. Her husband disappears; her
family is murdered; her home is burned to the ground.
Desperate,
starving, and burdened with an unwanted child, she now despises and
rejects the Tree she once worshiped. Ripped from her land and people,
forced into survival immigration, she becomes a lowly refugee, a servant
in the homes of the rich. Her unusually gifted child thrives, but is an
ever present reminder of ultimate loss and betrayal.
Two
women: one broken, the other rooted in bitterness, continue to be drawn
towards the song of a Tree that will not let them go. Along roads of
degrading poverty and equally destructive wealth, each much wrestle with
the siren call of perfect love, and its altar sacrifice of perfect
trust.
{About Lotis Key}
Lotis Melisande Key has lived a life
of wide travel and curious variety. She's raised horses in the
Australian outback; skied the Alps; run tours through a tropical jungle;
bought & sold antiquities. She's been a restaurateur; a breeder of
show cats; a third world church planter. She's worked in an orphanage,
and run a ministry that puts children through school.
After
a professional theater debut at the age of twelve, she subsequently
starred in over seventy five feature films for the Asian market. She's
also hosted numerous television and radio shows. Upon settling in the
United States, she signed with Chicago, New York, and Minneapolis based
talent agencies, expanding into American on-camera and voice over
narration, industrial videos, trade shows, professional theater,
television, and radio commercials.
Retiring
from secular work, she founded MESSENGERS, a Christian theater arts
group based at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis (themessengersfeet.org). As artistic director, she toured the company throughout the US, Canada, and Asia.
Vice-president
of the Minnesota Christian Writers Guild, Lotis is a passionate
storyteller. Her work focuses on the mystery of God, and His
incomprehensible love for the unattractive, wayward parts, of His
otherwise perfect creation.
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