The Hidden Message

Last year I decorated a tree at church that said Jesus is the Reason for the Season. It also had red bulbs on it that had Jesus Is the Gift written on them - one letter per bulb. This year I actually had a helper, so it didn't take as long to put it up - what a blessing!! :D

It was nice to see on Sunday morning. Ahhhhh Sooooo homey!

Sunday night I walked past it and stopped dead in my tracks. I wasn't directly looking at it but something seemed different. I turned around and my mouth dropped in horror!!!

ALL of my bulbs spelling out "Jesus Is the Gift" were randomly placed throughout the tree, not in one place, like I had it, so you could read what was on the ornaments. Shock turned to anger -- and one shouldn't have anger -- ESPECIALLY in church. I stormed down the hallway -- in a non-marching but determined way, and found Angela. I declared -- "SOMEBODY MOVED ALL THE BULBS ON THE CHRISTMAS TREE!!" I was ready to go on when she kind of smiled -- and I'm thinking in my head THIS IS NO JOKE!!!

Well - open mouth, insert foot. My friend Floss - who was right in the room, had done it b/c she thought kids had been playing around and clumped all the ornaments in one spot -- she didn't see that anything was written on the bulbs! Ohhhhh!! I felt sooooo bad.

I still haven't fixed it -- and it does look really really really good the way Floss arranged everything. Maybe next year I'll just put on the ribbon without the words on the ornaments. Maybe it's too much of a good thing - and really people don't read it, they just think - poor Jessica doesn't know how to decorate a tree. ha ha

Floss - if you're reading this -- I really do love you. And I feel bad for being "angry." If you re-arrange them again though - I'm tellin' Pastor!! ha ha :)