IT ALL BEGAN WITH A “CHUBBY” TREE…

CHRISTMAS and HANUKKAH GREETINGS HEART PARTNERS!!! I sincerely pray you are all doing well, and ready to CELEBRATE, and CLOSE out 2024!!! I know each of us probably have a FAVORITE this year…but I am stopping by to share how YAHUAH used a CHUBBY TREE to usher in Advent, Christmas, Hanukkah, and begin to show how to CLOSE 2024…because always remember…Isaiah 55:9-10 Cepher. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says YAHUAH…For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” So, it was time to slow down and SEE and HEAR HIS ways through the “chubby tree!”

As this is our FIRST HOLIDAY season in our new state…my heart was to have my lovely family choose and cut down a fresh tree on a Tree Farm!! We chose a Saturday which we “thought” would be dry weather, but instead we TROMPED through acres of trees to find “just the one!” I simply walked and looked while they chose…drenched and muddy they finally decided on the CUTEST, and CHUBBIEST tree I had ever seen. (Kept my opinions quiet, as I knew it could fit in our smaller home). As the day moved so quickly, my daughter and I sat down on the couch to watch evening church service while her husband went in person…all this to say, while we were enjoying the message, I hear…”MOM, the TREE is getting bigger!” OH this was hysterical, because she had forgotten that once the tree was in from the cold it would “settle,” and BOOM MUCH BIGGER! Truly, her surprise was PRICELESS! So, was this chubbiness going to SPEAK? Well, of course as YAHUAH loves to speak through His creations! When my son-in-law returned…he noticed the “growth” and we began to chat about YAHUAH’S abundance for each of us! We talked about how seeking, praying, trusting can CHALLENGE us to our very core…but my son-in-law said, he thinks that YAHUAH is sharing HIS symbol of ABUNDANT BLESSINGS! Hmmmm I thought…REALLY THOUGH? It’s just a “chubby tree!”

Monday morning rolls around…tree is looking BEAUTIFUL and still chubby as we head out the door to walk the dogs…LOW and behold my son-in-law gets a call for the new job he was praying for!!! WHAT? Is this YAHUAH or ….? So I accepted the first abundant message and pressed onward…then a VERY DEAR FREIND blessed my socks off…it was such an abundant blessing that I could not DENY it was for sure YAHUAH in her that came my way! Okay…now I have NO WORDS…but the deepest and most grateful heart ever!! You see this friends truly has no idea what she has done for me and my family…but I KNOW one thing for sure HER FATHER YAHUAH KNOWS and she will be rewarded! I will never be able to THANK HER enough, but I pray our FATHER shows her!

Pressing onward…we had a car go into the dealer for a major repair…which nobody could find the source of the problem until…my daughter gets a text…MAJOR PART being ordered and ALL UNDER WARRANTY!! WHOA…HIS ABUNDANCE!! Now, mind you this means sharing vehicles, chauffeuring here and there…but NO NEGATIVITY as CHUBBY TREE is speaking! : ). As we process forward, we picked up one of our most precious heart friends to join us for the HOLIDAYS…no major snow issues…and safely arrived!! ABUNDANCE!!! This precious one was in need a bit as we live in the COLD…so new things gathered and all is well! Time to walk the dogs again…and I share that I need a new pair of walking sneakers to support my back and such…come home and WHAT??? I have an old DSW card which covered my NEW SNEAKERS with zero shipping $! ABUNDANT BLESSINGS! Well, I think you are all getting the picture…we have had our challenges, but we all know that YAHUAH is in CONTROL and we can TRUST HIM…I won’t drone on but my heart wants to share with you that I was getting very discouraged…things were GREAT but a bit chaotic…I LOVE LOVE LOVE to see YAHUAH in ALL THINGS…and I had been struggling until…this GORGEOUS CHUBBY TREE made me really LOOK at ALL HIS WAYS…not MINE! I LOVE how our FATHER LOVES us even in our own muck and mire….and meets us right where we are!

My beloved Sis says, “LIVE FOR YAHUAH TODAY, NO REGRETS TOMORROW,” and I do believe that in the deepest heart waters of my soul…but its the LIVING IT that can get tricky…so I stop…Hmmm how did MARY and JOSEPH do it….how did the Israelites believe that the Temple Oil would miraculously burn for 8 nights when there was only enough for one? Did any of them experience discouragement? I believe absolutely…as YAHUAH was going to PROVIDE Yahusha as our SAVIOR, and demonstrate HIS LOVE and MIRACLES to ALL PEOPLE! COULD it get any better? YES, because YAHUSHA tells us, John 14:12-onward Cepher “Amein, Amein, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works that I do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father…So are we doing GREATER WORKS?? Is our FAITH GREATER?? Well, obviously we are all in PROCESS…but HIS TRUTH is TRUTH…and I needed to see it all in a new symbol…currently a chubby tree! I dearly LOVE how YAHUAH knows just what we need…even as I type this my niece (a real treasure) has checked the arrival status of the cards I sent to her family…SEE HE knew I was concerned…and PROVIDED again! ABUNDANCE! Sometimes we get lost in all the doings in the WORLD…and are BLINDED which results in NEGLECT of HIS GOODNESS….well I should speak for myself only…my need was a CHUBBY TREE! : )

I don’t know what your NEED is this holiday season, but I can say…give it all over to HIM and look for HIS answers in your moment to moment, your every breath!! YAHUAH is with you and I know HE will answer HIS WAY and HIS WAYS are perfect!

I will close as I pray for any and all readers and their families to SEE YAHUAH and YAHUSHA EVERYWHERE however you are CELEBRATING our BEST FRIEND and SAVIOR’S BIRTH!!! MIRACLES upon MIRACLES!!!

SENDING MY LOVE…

SHALOM,

DanaKae