Jesse Tree #4-Abraham
I was asked recently, "What is a Jesse Tree?"
I am not sure that we do it "right"....kind of like when we watched the VeggieTale Esther to celebrate Purim. I am sure there are those who would not be able to sit through that "ceremony":-), or our Passover, which we have also worked around to suit our family.
A few years ago, we decided that for our family, we would use the bulk of December to celebrate the coming of Jesus as a baby to the earth. After making that decision, we found the some things on the Jesse Tree at Domestic-church.com...if you scroll down, you will see the pdfs for the pictures of Jesse Tree topics.
We do one every day. We used to do it from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, but Thanksgiving moves, ya know:-)...so now we start on December 1. We also used to blackout dates that we knew we would be gone in the evenings...but we don't do that anymore. That way it is consistent every year.
On the above Jesse Tree page, Catherine Fournier (who has a pretty cool Jesse Tree) describes the Jesse Tree this way:
The Jesse tree is a symbol of Jesus' family tree.
It also takes us through that first long Advent which lasted from the Fall to the Incarnation.
I don't think our Jesse Tree follows Jesus' family tree very closely...some of it is in His lineage, some not. What we try to keep in our minds is the reason He came. He created a perfect world and we messed it up...and keep messing it up over and over with our sin. So God sent Jesus to bring the gift of wiping our sinful slate clean with His death and resurrection. We simply have to admit we need it and accept it, and, with His help, turn from our sin. We will sin again, but with God's gift, He doesn't see our sin anymore, because Jesus' blood covers it. That's the way I see it anyway.
So, on with the Jesse Tree!
Today we are doing Abraham...the promise of lots of descendants, all that.
The menu will be
Roast (the calf)
Rhodes rolls for the bread.
green beans
tiny pasta that I found in the Latino part of Walmart.
AND (I forgot to say this yesterday) star shaped cookies that we will frost tonight.
Here and here are Paul's pages for Abraham if you want to use them...there are some in between, but this is the part we will do.
or this if you want to use the Bible
Our ornament is a long dark piece of paper covered with stars. We just kind of set it in the branches.
Tomorrow we will be remembering the near sacrifice of Isaac.
We will be eating
blackened chicken (with Paul Prudhomme's seasoning) (fire theme)
baked potatoes (fire theme)
peas (just because we need a vegetable)
s'mores (fire theme)
Our ornament is a ram that I made (yes I did) out of Sculpey, which you can find in the Craft Department at Walmart. Or use the picture from the site above (domestic church) or get a ram from the Toy Department in the little cheap toys where you can get a bag of farm animals for 88 cents. Whatever works for you. :-)
I am not sure that we do it "right"....kind of like when we watched the VeggieTale Esther to celebrate Purim. I am sure there are those who would not be able to sit through that "ceremony":-), or our Passover, which we have also worked around to suit our family.
A few years ago, we decided that for our family, we would use the bulk of December to celebrate the coming of Jesus as a baby to the earth. After making that decision, we found the some things on the Jesse Tree at Domestic-church.com...if you scroll down, you will see the pdfs for the pictures of Jesse Tree topics.
We do one every day. We used to do it from the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, but Thanksgiving moves, ya know:-)...so now we start on December 1. We also used to blackout dates that we knew we would be gone in the evenings...but we don't do that anymore. That way it is consistent every year.
On the above Jesse Tree page, Catherine Fournier (who has a pretty cool Jesse Tree) describes the Jesse Tree this way:
The Jesse tree is a symbol of Jesus' family tree.
It also takes us through that first long Advent which lasted from the Fall to the Incarnation.
I don't think our Jesse Tree follows Jesus' family tree very closely...some of it is in His lineage, some not. What we try to keep in our minds is the reason He came. He created a perfect world and we messed it up...and keep messing it up over and over with our sin. So God sent Jesus to bring the gift of wiping our sinful slate clean with His death and resurrection. We simply have to admit we need it and accept it, and, with His help, turn from our sin. We will sin again, but with God's gift, He doesn't see our sin anymore, because Jesus' blood covers it. That's the way I see it anyway.
So, on with the Jesse Tree!
Today we are doing Abraham...the promise of lots of descendants, all that.
The menu will be
Roast (the calf)
Rhodes rolls for the bread.
green beans
tiny pasta that I found in the Latino part of Walmart.
AND (I forgot to say this yesterday) star shaped cookies that we will frost tonight.
Here and here are Paul's pages for Abraham if you want to use them...there are some in between, but this is the part we will do.
or this if you want to use the Bible
Our ornament is a long dark piece of paper covered with stars. We just kind of set it in the branches.
Tomorrow we will be remembering the near sacrifice of Isaac.
We will be eating
blackened chicken (with Paul Prudhomme's seasoning) (fire theme)
baked potatoes (fire theme)
peas (just because we need a vegetable)
s'mores (fire theme)
Our ornament is a ram that I made (yes I did) out of Sculpey, which you can find in the Craft Department at Walmart. Or use the picture from the site above (domestic church) or get a ram from the Toy Department in the little cheap toys where you can get a bag of farm animals for 88 cents. Whatever works for you. :-)
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