The Memory Tree, A Christmas Story

 

The Memory Tree, A Gospel Christmas Story.  

A great read for families at Christmas gatherings that takes 15-20 minutes to read.  For all ages.  It clearly presents the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

This is a Christmas story I wrote in 1992 that you can read in about 10 minutes.   The Gospel is very clearly presented.

Can a Christmas tree planted in memory of Ruth and Barry’s grandfather speak to their father Harry?  Harry’s been bitter for years about the death of his wife Charlotte on Christmas years before.  He asks, “How could a God that loves us let Charlotte die?”  He never got an answer he could accept until he told the story about the memory tree. 

“Why did one have to die for the other to live?” He asked the children, unsure of the answer.  All the bitterness of all the years seemed to come back suddenly and he began to feel tears well up in his eyes.

“That’s what Charlotte said, ‘He had to die to give us life,'” he almost shouted.  He now understood that the tree had a message for him all along.  All these years he hadn’t seen it.  Jesus had to die so we could live.  We couldn’t sacrifice ourselves, we weren’t worthy, but He was.  Now it was all clear, Jesus had died to give him life.  “O Lord how could I have been so blind!!  I need you, Jesus,” he thought. 

Richard Slazer was reading in John when he heard the tree fall.  “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone; but if it die it brings forth much fruit.”  He got up from his chair and went out in the yard to look at the fallen tree.  As he looked at the base where it had cracked and broken. He noticed a tiny branch poking it’s head up through the soil right next to the broken stump. Perhaps a new tree will grow in its place, he thought, as he hurried in to escape the coming storm.

Table of Contents

  • The Memory Tree
  •          Christmas 1922, The Beginning
  •          Christmas 1948, The Accident
  •          Christmas 1976, Telling the Story
  •          Christmas 1986, The End??
  •          January 3, 1987, The New Beginning
  • Appendix
  •          About the Author – Charlie Liebert
  •          Charlie’s Many Varied Careers
  •          Charlie’s Christian Testimony
  •          Charlie Liebert’s Work as an Author
  •                   Always Be Ready to Give an Answer! 
  •                   ANSWERS For “The Hope That Is in You. 
  •                   Without 3 Miracles Darwin’s Dead! 
  •                   My Children’s Christian Education, What Should I Do? 
  •                   Yellowstone’s Child.
  •                   Liebert Annals in Deutschland, Our Complete German History
  •                   Rosemarie, Kristallnacht Transformation.
  •                   Tales of a Teen Aristocrat, Pranksters, a Witch, a Curse a Ghost and a Jew. 
  •                   One Android, 399 lives – 59th St. Attack Kills 399.
  •                   Helene at Mama Henney’s Boarding School for Girls. 
  •                   The Curse of the Witch of Zahlendorf
  • Charlie’s Publishing for eBooks & Paperbacks
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