Object: a palm branch, or a picture of palm tree

Good morning, boys and girls. Do you remember how on Palm Sunday you come walking into the sanctuary waving palm branches? That's pretty neat, isn't it? Well, this morning I wanted to tell you a little about palm trees. Palm trees grow best in really hot places. Most trees have branches all along their trunk, but palm trees only have branches at the very top of the tree. The top of a palm tree is called its crown. But there's something else about palm trees that make them very unique: when the wind is blowing really hard, palm trees will bend with the wind, but th…