Dec 3- Start Jesus Tree

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Dec 3- Start Jesus Tree

Posted by Holly Nelson on Thursday, December 3, 2009 Under: Holiday Ideas

Today the kids and I will start our Jesus Tree. It is also known as the Jesse Tree. Many years ago a bible study teacher invited me and a bunch of girls to her house to talk about the Jesus Tree. At that time I had never heard of it, but now I can't even imagine a Christmas without it.
Jesus has many names in the Bible. If you study the Bible you will see He is in every book. To start your tree, I suggest
Adornaments(go here to buy it!) from Family Life.(This link will take you to their Christmas shop) It is a set of 12 ornaments with the name of Christ, the bible verse, and story to go with it. For these now, I have the boys take turns the 12 days leading up to Christmas to read each one and they choose where to put on the tree. Or if you are starting with these you can do them all at once with a "story time" of hot cocoa or hot apple cider and Christmas treats.

Every year that I make salt dough or cinnamon-applesauce ornaments, I make a few for the Jesus Tree.
Here are a few of my ornaments the kids have help me make:

He is the bright and morning star. Revelation 22:16

The Sacrifice. Hebrew 9:26

The Resurrection and the Life. John 11:25

Or anytime you are out shopping, anytime of year, look for things that would represent Christ. You can be creative and take an ordinary object, tie or glue a ribbon on it, and put it on the tree.

Please visit the Christmas page to see more ideas for the Jesus Tree. There will be a list of the Name of Christ, alphabetically. I suggest to be creative and think of things you could use for each name.

For more ideas visit: Jesus Tree List

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About Me

Holly Nelson

Arlington

"Let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a quiet and gentle sprirt, which is precious in the sight of God." 1 Peter 3:4 - "An excellent wife,who can find? Her worth is far above jewels." Proverbs 31:10 ~~ I am a stay-at-home-mom(SAHM) married to the love of my life, Jeff Nelson. We have six wonderful boys. Ryan(13), Seth(11), Ian(8), Noah(5), Luke(4), and Jack (born April 2010). We live in Tennessee on 4 acres. I grew up the first few years of my life on a dairy farm in Missouri and loved country living. I was saved at a young age by the grace of God and shed blood of Jesus during that time of simple country living. That part of my life is very dear to me. God taught me many things as a baby Christian that I can still think about today. Then we moved to Memphis when I was in the 5th grade. I learned to love the city life, too. It was a completely different way of life. My whole family still lives in Missouri, still does a little farming and simple country living. When Jeff, the kids, and I moved from the city to the country, I incorporated my city life with my country background. My mom laughs at me when I cut my grass on my John Deere tractor while drinking my Starbucks Mocha and wearing my fancy sunglasses. And when I am shampooing my carpet in my high-heeled black boots. I just love those boots! But I would love to share about how I got to be the way I am today, The Victoriously Organized Woman! I used to work as a supervisor at bank for years. I had to dress up everyday. After the birth of our second child we decide I should be a SAHM. One of the best decision I've ever made. But I made a bad decision, too. I hardly ever dressed up anymore. I hardly ever wore make-up. After about a year I looked in the mirror and said, "OH MY! Jeff has to come home to this!?!" He is so wonderful he said he liked me that way, "natural". Well , I realized that I didn't. It made me feel bad about myself. I felt disorganized, tired and stressed and a little "rough" looking. I felt I just couldn't get it all done. At this time I was diagnosed with Meniere's Disease. I wasn't able to do certains things. Like mop the floor of my completely hardwood floor home that I was obsessed about keeping clean. The doctor told me I couldn't have salt, caffeine, or stress! "What?! Are you kidding!?" So , then I decided to change my routine,thought pattern, and cooking. I began to get up early, shower and dress, put on make up. Always being ready to leave whenever I needed to. I established routines that helped me eliminate extra cleaning and stresses. I was able to make more time for myself and make more time for my family. And the family had more time for each other. I made more time for God and others. This made me feel better about myself. I am so happy about how this changed my life I want to share it with everyone.