Black Friday is our traditional tree-decorating day, so we drove down the road to make our selection. Our only requirements ar "Big" and "Short-needled". Easy enough. Christmas tree accomplished. It is now covered with our memory laden ornaments; a collection of vintage glass ones, travel souvenir ones, and the most precious of all: those limited edition ones made by chubby hands at Sunday School, co-op and preschool.This year we are adding another kind of Christmas Tree to our repertoire: a Jesse Tree a la Ann VosKamp at Holy Experience. I've heard of the Jesse Tree for celebrating the advent season and her (free!)devotional e-book complete with illustrated ornaments is the best resource of its kind that I have found. I promptly drained our ink cartridge to print it out and took one very understanding son out into the twilight to hack off a dead corkscrew tree which I have had in mind for just such a purpose.
Please know it was dark. And cold. And the tree was uncooperative.
Though he may have begun to doubt the need for us to have this gnarly specimen
sunk in plaster-of-paris and made into the centerpiece of our kitchen table, he persevered and brought home the trophy tree.
Next we need to start our readings and craft our grace-blossoms for its bare branches. Another tradition taking root!
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