The Christmas Tree

We went and bought our Christmas tree today.  Last week we had gone around town and priced how much the trees were (anywhere from $24-$30 for a full sized one) before finding that Home Hardware had a man selling smaller trees for as little as $15.  We thought about it, but $15 was still, well, $15 for a tree.  It's a lot of money on a tight budget and I can think of many, many things to use that $15 for!  But we wanted Samuel to have a tree, and so today we went back.

After scrounging the house and my pockets I had $11 to spare, and so on the way to see the tree man I prayed "Lord, give me $4 in the next twenty minutes or please let the man take what is less than half of the price he could charge for a tree!"  And I felt quite content, because the tree, or the $4, would show up somehow.

When we arrived on the lot David said "ok, go talk to him then!" and I wandered over and fiddled with a beautiful spruce for a bit before catching his attention.  Of course, he was charming to a prospective customer, but I plowed on and asked "Your smaller trees, are they ALL $15?"  "Most of them" he replied "I could go a bit cheaper." 

"We have $11.  Would you let any tree go for $11?"  And although I knew, just KNEW, that God had a Christmas tree for us (after all, I hadn't discovered $4 on my walk!) I also knew that the tree for us was going to be a Charlie Brown sort of deal somewhere at the back of the piles!  And I was ok with that.

"Well, the one you have right there, you can have that for $11."  He said, pointing at the beautiful big spruce I had been nervously fiddling with.

And that's how we ended up with the perfect tree.  A tree that no where else in town could we have purchased for $11 in change.  A God tree, indeed.