Sunday, November 24, 2013

Angels in the Tree



Angels in the Tree



This is the house I grew up in.  As I've said in other posts, I like to climb trees.  The maple tree with the glowing spots in it is the tree I learned to climb in.  At some point my parents bought those two glowing angels and I got the idea to put the way up in the tree.  I am an Eagle scout and the thing I enjoyed learning the most is how to tie knots.  Once we started doing this every year I would climb the tree with a pulley and a rope and tie it up near the top.  I would drop the long rope and climb down to tie the angel to the rope and my sister or mother would pull the rope down to get the angel into the tree.  As you can probably see, the 100ft.  extension cord we used barely made it up there, but it was always worth it.  They could be seen clear down the street.

Looking at this image now the angels remind me of the gospels of Jesus Christ where there are angels sitting on the tomb of Jesus after he has been resurrected.  Luke describes them as wearing clothes that "gleamed like lightning"  (Luke 24:4).  Maybe the same angels just happened to visit my house?