The tree wins this time

Last night, just before dark, my kids decided to go sledding. They put on their outside clothes knowing they only had twenty to thirty minutes. It had been less than fifteen when my husband carried my screaming four-year-old in. She had hit a tree. Her face was red with blood and cuts, but it was the blood splot soaking through her hat that concerned me the most. In all honesty, I was scared to take the hat off for fear of what I might see.
We brought her into the bathroom and cleaned her up, settled her down, got the ibuprofin on board to start numbing the pain. When we moved the blood-matted hair and started cleaning her head, the cut was not all that bad. It was about the size of a quarter, but the worrisome part was that it was dented in. My husband, an RN, watched it and wondered why it didn't swell. Obviously it was blunt force trauma. Something (a branch, a nub on the tree, who knows?) had hit her there.
After watching her for a few hours and trying to determine if she needed to go to the ER or not, we looked skull fractures up on the internet. What we saw and read was encouragement enough to let the experts decide what damage had been done.
She had a head CT and two staples put in her head before returning home a few minutes before midnight.
Last night the tree won. In the garden of Eden, the devil, posing as a snake in the tree, won. All of us have felt the effects of a sinful world ever since. If Christ had not rose from the dead, the devil would have won again. By all accounts Christ must have looked pretty weak hanging on the tree. Thankfully the story didn't end there. If that was it, and our Jesus, who claimed to be true God, hung dead on a tree, he was no different then anyone else. But He didn't stay on the tree. He didn't even stay in the grave. Hundreds of people saw him alive again in the days following his death. He was alive, with the nail holes still in his hands and the spear hole in his side, to prove it was not some impostor.
Last night the tree won. How much worse it would have been for us if the tree had won two thousand years ago.