The Day Jesus Told Me to Get Down From My Tree

It took a while. Getting up was easier than getting down

Ida Adams
Ida Adams
Nov 6 · 5 min read
Photo by Ethan Brooke from Pexels

I was wary. Unsure. One branch at a time. Looking for a safe foothold. Stopping. Listening for cracking twigs. Creaking branches. Expecting to fall.

I was six years old again. My sister, seven years older, had helped me up the tree behind our house. Then she left. I

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Ida Adams

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Writer/Dreamer. Not of this world. Just passing through. Lover of All Creatures Great and Small. .Unapologetic Christian.

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