If Christmas Makes You Question Your Worth, & If You’re Enough, (& About the Rockefeller Christmas Tree)

 As the first snow fell on the tall spruce trees that lined the long highway of a weekend road trip a few weeks ago, my daughter turned to me and asked, “Mama…. what’s your most favorite childhood memory?” And as we drove along the ribbon of road through the falling snow, I could see it in my mind again, as a child, that road we drove every Christmas, coming up through snow blanketed trees on highway 45, coming down from the little village of Baltimore, and around the bend to Centerton, and there in the dark of Grandma and Grandpa’s front window, was always Grandma’s little glowing ceramic Christmas tree, lit up and welcoming us all home…  And up and down every street this time of year, everywhere you go, you can see all the shimmering trees in all the bay windows, decked out and garlanded trees. Or there’s the stacks of snow-dusted trees outside the grocery store, waiting to be chosen and taken home…. to welcome all home home for the holidays. And every single one of those Christmas trees come from one unassuming, vulnerable seed. All of which makes me think, as the snow keeps falling on the […]