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Congratulations to Guideposts.org commenter “Caperez42,” winner of the 2011 One-minute Devotions Page-A-Day Calendar<\/a>. This week, we’ll be giving away the 2010 collection of His Mysterious Ways<\/em>. Leave a comment below to enter… it makes a great Christmas gift.<\/p>\n

Last week<\/a>, I asked if anyone had a good holiday Mysterious Ways story to share. Becky Dosier of Kemp, Texas answered the call:<\/p>\n

“We are country folks and each year at Christmas it was our tradition for everyone to go down into our pasture and pick out our Christmas tree. Everyone included my husband, two daughters (later three daughters) me, and Dolly, our 30-year-old horse. My husband would cut the tree down and tie it to Dolly’s saddle and she would drag it back to the house.<\/p>\n

One year my husband was having severe back problems and there was no way he could walk down into the pasture, much less cut down a tree. He commented to me that it looked as if we would have to purchase a tree that year. Late one evening just a few days before Christmas we had just left our home and started to turn on the main farm to Market Road going to town. Right there on the side of the road was a Christmas tree about six feet tall, wrapped in that green mesh like at the store. We stopped and I loaded it into the car and took my daughter’s shoe strings out of her shoes and tied the trunk down to keep it from falling out. That was the prettiest tree we had ever seen. Don’t try to tell me that tree was there by accident, no, I know where that tree came from!”<\/p>\n

What do you think? Did Becky and her family just get lucky? Or did somebody hear their prayers?<\/p>\n

Hopefully, I won’t get a letter about a family losing a Christmas tree in rural Texas a few years ago…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Guideposts.org commenter “Caperez42,” winner of the 2011 One-minute Devotions Page-A-Day Calendar. This week, we’ll be giving away the 2010 collection of His Mysterious Ways. Leave a comment below to enter… it makes a great Christmas gift. Last week, I asked if anyone had a good holiday Mysterious Ways story to share. 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