the making of a Passion tree...

A Passion Tree...

I've never had a Passion Tree before...

honestly, if not for the prompting from Ann

I wouldn't have ever thought of creating one

but creating is something I LOVE to do

and so I filled an old Mason jar

with beans... 

and we talk about Jesus' parable of the 

farmer who sowed his seed...

Matthew 13

and we add 5 branches

because, of course, there are 5 of us

and we talk about John 15...

He is the vine, we are the branches

and we embellish with

$1 glittery foam eggs...

because it brings us joy

and makes us smile

and because of grace

we can

we bring it in and add some left over

Advent tree lights

and we put it in the same place the Advent tree goes

because the lessons from the Passion tree

are just as important 

as the lessons from the Advent tree

and we add Ann's pictures

the ones done by masters of long ago

...those ones we don't know much about

so off we go to learn

about the ones who created art

to glorify the Artist

we take our Passion tree with us

to share with others as we learn

to identify the art on our tree

our Passion tree 

becomes an art history lesson

and a fun day searching and researching

at the library with friends

and after our jaunt
our Passion tree

safely arrives back home

placed back in its prominent place

and from here we look forward 
to learning more..

to studying of the passion of our Savior

whose death, burial and resurrection

gives us new life in Him!