At church this morning, we had “Lessons in Carols,” but there was a
children’s message in the middle of that. During that, the Christmas
tree was talking to us about how she enjoyed being in church learning
about Jesus. Had she not been cut down and brought to church, she would
be living hundreds of years, but she would not know Jesus and would thus
be missing out. The youth pastor derived from this the lesson that we
must die (spiritually) in order to live.