This picture was taken on the farm where we shared Thanksgiving with seventy other RVers as guest of a Disney World Cast member. Sitting around the table, so full with good food and friendship, I saw the tree near the place where one of our number had buried their pet the day before, and I was reminded of the Pseudo-Matthew Infancy Narrative I'd read long ago. In the story, Mary and Joseph are stop to rest under a tree on their flight to Egypt. Mary says she's hungry, Joseph says the fruit of the palm tree is too high. Jesus, a typical toddler, doesn't like his parents' bickering so he commands the tree to bend and feed his mother. May we all trust the truth of the myth – that we will be nourished…always!
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