INSPIRASUNS

Oh, the variety of Christmas catalogs have started to arrive 🙂 . Last night when we picked up the mail there was an advertisement for Balsam Hill. If you are like me you can waste hours just looking through this catalog. I love to look at the beautifully decorated spaces, they put Christmas literally everywhere in their pictures.

While we were making dinner my husband showed me one of the options that Balsam Hill has. You can order a “sampler box” basically. They send to you a sample branch of each of the types of Christmas trees they sell. They are the fake trees of course, but these puppies, ya they look very real for sure! Anyway, you look through the many varieties they have and then you pick the type of tree you want. Oh, and send the box of samples back and they’ll issue a credit toward your tree. Now…we probably won’t be participating in that process because, um, ya their trees are just a tad on the expensive side 🙂 .

It got me thinking though, I’ve mentioned in an earlier little blog, that I want a real Christmas tree this year. I love the smell of a real tree, I love how each one is different, and how different it will look when decorated. Unlike a fake tree where it’s the same shape and size each year, heck ours even has the lights on it so those are the same each year, a real tree provides the opportunity for a different look. Sure, my husband says I’ll be thinking differently once I have to start picking up the needles everywhere. It will be fine 🙂 .

As I sat down this morning to share this little blog and was thinking about the whole real tree or artificial tree, it made me think about our relationship with Father. Here is what I mean. Our relationship with God is unique, it’s different and it’s real. Yes, things can get messy sometimes, we have to clean up the needles that fall so to speak. It’s also something we have to work at to keep healthy, we have to water it to help it grow so to speak.

Yes, my friends, I’ll take the real tree and the real relationship with Father every time. It may be messy at times, and it may require work, but the reward, and the beauty they both bring are so worth it.

Have a great day my friends, and hey, give some thought to the real Christmas tree this year. Oooohhh even better, go cut it down yourself this year 🙂 .

Luke 1:37
For nothing will be impossible with God