When I moved out into Christmas Tree Land 10 years ago, I saw a sign that said “Spruce Tops – $14.95″ This was new to me. I knew what spruces were but what do you do with the tops? Well, as usual, I was behind the times.

These little bundles of spruce tops are used for all sorts of decorating. The Christmas Tree farms cut off the extra tops to prune the tree and then they sell the tops to others. With 2,000 pines on my property I went to see what was in my spruce tops.

Plodding through snow and looking up, I discovered this new use for spruce tops. This red tailed hawk was using the spruce top to look for dinner. Well that’s a good use.

When we are with our families, no matter human or bird, we are constantly looking for good uses for things that are gifts from our Creator. This sense of survival by using everything to it’s best is part of our instincts. AT times of high consumerism, sometimes we forget to reuse and find new ways to use items. We get so good at getting more and throwing away.

As a family take a spruce top walk. Walk through your home and surrounding area and look up and look down to see new ways to reuse things that might have been thrown away. Gee, I wonder how this relates to the holidays and to being good stewards?