Our Christmas tree will probably never be pictured on a Hallmark Christmas card. For one, my family has no patience when picking out a tree. So the one we got this year (after an excruciating 15 minutes of looking) is a little (alot) fuller on one side than the other. It's also leaning a bit in the stand, but I left it that way because I figured the two counter balanced each other. : )
While I insist on white lights, our ornaments do not match. They are a mix matched collection of ones we have accumulated over the years. We have a tradition each year that everyone gets a new ornament. One day, when my kids have families of their own, we will give them all of their ornaments for their own trees. It's a fun event, picking out our ornaments each year. This year, my ornament looks like a snowglobe and says "HOPE". I picked it, because for me, this Christmas is all about hope. One of my favorite verses is Roman 8:25:
with perseverance we wait eagerly for it."
1 comments:
Good morning Rachel,
We have the same tradition of a new ornament for everyone every year...ours this year was a ball shape with multiple reflective-like panels covering it. One of the meditations for us this season is how God's gift is not only a gift to us, but a gift through us...we're to reflect the Light of the world in our lives in lots of ways so others might come to know and love and enjoy Him too...hence, as a reminder we got multi-dimensional reflective balls.
Our tree was rather Dr. Seuss-ish this year too; but THAT is not traditional here...oh well, we've had a grand sense of humor about its appearance, and we're not trying to win any contests which makes it way easier to simply enjoy.
I enjoyed your post sis, love you.
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