Last year when we chopped down our first real tree I noticed how heavy my ornaments were on the branches. The branches were unable to hold my ornaments and they bent to the floor with some even breaking. I started to remove the ornaments from the branches that couldn't sustain the weight and realized that our branches on our tree were much like our arms trying to carry our own burdens. We carry around so much weight that we don't even realize it is what weighs us down, holds us back and breaks us. The weight of your problems, your circumstances and sometimes even the world is too much for one person to carry much like the weight of my ornaments was too much for one tree. But when we take off the burdens we are carrying and leave them at the foot of the cross, our "branches" lift and we praise God because His yolk is so much lighter. So whatever burdens you might be carrying this holiday, leave them at the cross, lift your arms up and praise Him for He is good!
Our praise and prayers lift us, so this year we decided as a family to decorate our tree with prayers for those who are experiencing burdens. Truly lifting our branches on our tree with prayers to the Lord. If you have something you would like for us to be in prayer for either comment, message me or slip it under my door of Rise & Gouaux! Merry Christmas!!
