The Japanese have a festival called Tanabata and people celebrate by writing wishes on colorful paper and hanging the wishes on bamboo tree branches.
I love the idea of writing wishes or blessings for people I love on paper and then hanging them from trees. In some ways, this reminds me of praying before the WailingWall in Jerusalem and leaving a written prayer or message to God by placing it in one of the holes or openings of the wall. That is what I did many years ago when my wife and I traveled to Israel. I remember writing a prayer to God asking for a child to enter our lives, and, in time, God answered our prayers with a beautiful, healthy daughter. How blessed we have been!
What are the wishes or payers or blessings that you might write on paper and hang from a tree with the hope that they will be answered?
