1 of 2 Great Gifts

My husband did really good this year. He would admittedly say that he hasn't been that strong of a gift-giver the past couple Christmases (granted, we had a little bit going on, but still...). This year he came through like a champ. So I've been eyeing this tree photo holder from Pottery Barn and it finally went on clearance. It's a lot cooler than it sounds (it is from Pottery Barn, after all). One could add pictures to it's branches or I may just hang it up as is. The reason this is important to me is that trees have had great meaning in my life for a while. When my parent's decided to get a divorce there was only one book for teenagers in the Christian bookstore. I bought it and I read it. The thing I'll always remember is a story about a girl seeing her family as a tree and that the tree had been painfully uprooted. She was left looking at a great, big, black hole...a hole that had once been her whole family. A friend came alongside her and said that someday she could plant a new tree and then have a bunch of little trees shooting off beside her...the legacy of her family. I held onto this thought for a long time. And now. Now Justin and I have planted our own big, strong tree. And we have little "new-life" branches shooting off! And our roots are deep. So this "tree photo holder" means a lot to me. I'm glad it will remind me of what I have, instead of the whispers that tell me all I am missing.