Families in Texas are traveling to pray around a tree at a home that appears to show the image of the Virgin Mary and the finger of God pointing to the sky, according to a Local 6 News report.

The image was found on a tree that has been at the Kilburn family's Harris County, Tx., since they moved in nine years ago, Local 6 News reported.

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"We were going out to church, my husband backs up and I say, 'honey, there's a woman on the tree,'" Pat Kilburn said.

Kilburn said the image of the Virgin Mary appeared on the tree.

Kilburn said the same image that appears to be the face of Virgin Mary also appears to be God's finger pointing to Heaven.

Kilburn and many of her neighbors are convinced the tree is God's way of showing people he is always near, Local 6 News reported.

However, not everyone is convinced, according to the report.

"I am not excluding in principle that visions and aberrations of things of that sort happen after God can do what he wants, but I will not assume that before dismissing everything else," Father Janusz Ihnatowicz said. "The danger is when this becomes an obsession with people and they are willing, for instance, to reject the church because the church does not agree with them."

Ihnatowicz is a Catholic priest and a retired professor of theology.

Kilburn said the tree is a blessing and she is willing to share it with anyone who believes.

"We give the glory to God, we don't take the glory because he is saying: 'I'm here,'" Kilburn said. "It's such a fast-paced world, you know? We don't stop and look at the beauty around us."

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