The Worry Tree

Today I was in a truck stop that is apparently owned by very Christian people. They have all kinds of plaques and clippings hung up all over with "inspirational" stories giving praise to God. I couldn't help but glance at one while I was microwaving up my lunch. To me this sounds more Wiccan than Christian, but I will let you decide. I hunted it down online so I could paste it. If anyone needs the link it is here.

The Worry Tree

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica] [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The Carpenter I hired to help me restore and old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric saw quit, and now his ancient pickup truck refused to start. While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence.

On arriving, he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands. When opening the door, he underwent an amazing transformation. His tanned face wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.

Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do earlier.

"Oh, that's my trouble tree", he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing for sure, troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children. So I just hang them on the tree every night when I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again."

"Funny thing is", he smiled, "when I come out in the morning to pick 'em up, there ain't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before."[/FONT]


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Just sounds like a story to me.

I'm sorry - don't mean to offend, but it sounds like pure rubbish to me.

Why, Kathryn?

Believing a tree has some kind of healing properties sounds like human nature to me.

The belief is there first, the religioin is created to explain it. Ownership of the belief belongs to the person, not the religion.

Thank you, Guitar's Cry. For those who are not of the Wiccan Faith, I will explain why I feel this story relates to Wicca:

Some of use a process called "grounding" in which we return our negative energy to the Earth and we draw positive energy back into ourselves. Out with the bad, in with the good. There are several ways to do this, but one common one involves using a tree. Some feel that channeling this energy through the tree is more efficient because of the way the roots are sunk into the Earth.

Whether you believe in a person's ability to transfer energy as such, anyone can benefit from the idea of leaving their problems from work outside of the home. Even a Christian should be able to understand that it would not be right for the plumber in the story to come home and be cruddy to his wife and kids because he had a bad day at work.

Wicca is a living religion as we actually live the religion. We don't say one thing and then act a different way. For some reason folks still think we are evil though...

pile your burdens under an altar

write them down and burn them in a fire

leave them on the front porch

hang them on a tree

toss them into the pit of Chaos

leave them at the foot of a cross.

it's all the same.
different asthetic is all.

enchanted_one1975 said:

Thank you, Guitar's Cry. For those who are not of the Wiccan Faith, I will explain why I feel this story relates to Wicca:

Some of use a process called "grounding" in which we return our negative energy to the Earth and we draw positive energy back into ourselves. Out with the bad, in with the good. There are several ways to do this, but one common one involves using a tree. Some feel that channeling this energy through the tree is more efficient because of the way the roots are sunk into the Earth.

Whether you believe in a person's ability to transfer energy as such, anyone can benefit from the idea of leaving their problems from work outside of the home. Even a Christian should be able to understand that it would not be right for the plumber in the story to come home and be cruddy to his wife and kids because he had a bad day at work.

Wicca is a living religion as we actually live the religion. We don't say one thing and then act a different way. For some reason folks still think we are evil though...

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Yeah, that's just weird.

Isn't it common knowledge that the UPSIDEDOWN pentacle wearers are the evil ones? :cover:

UltraViolet said:

Yeah, that's just weird.

Isn't it common knowledge that the UPSIDEDOWN pentacle wearers are the evil ones? :cover:

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Doesn't it have to have a bunch if 6's and flames around it too?

I honestly don't know but it doesn't sound to me like the story fits any religion.

Not sure if it's from a certain religion at all, but it was a lovely story.
-Dot

Common sense and a great love for his family.
I need three of those, please.
I hang them on my wife -the poor thing!!

If you where Christian you could take it as a parable to give up your worries to Christ.

I agree it is a secular story probably deriving it's roots from a pagan religion.