the Unloading of the trees

From the kitchen window we wait for the truck ... mid-morning on Black Friday it comes over the causeway onto the island the cry goes out over the village The trees are here! school children, parents and grandparents all gather together to unload the trees stacking them onto the wooden structure that the fathers built after work last week. There will be volunteers at the stand till the trees are all sold... a fire in a steel can, children running about playing, grandparents with hot cocoa... people visiting one another -jackets zipped up - brightly coloured hats and mittens everyone helping to tie the trees to the tops of all the cars some folks walk through the wooded path with wagons to tote the tree home again... we watch over the jars of seaglass on the kitchen window sill and we wait..... t Romans 15:5-6 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one a