364 days a year a twinkle is:

•  sparkle in the eye.
•  a gleam that varies continually between bright and faint.
•  a glimpse of light amongst the branches of the fir tree.

Then comes Christmas Day when a  twinkle becomes a Santa expression or ornament sparkle that brings only delight, merriment, and shear joy!

During the Season of Joy, fir trees transform the landscape into a cacophony of twinkling lights and evergreen moments. For the other months of the year, thee trees provide a dark green base through shish daylight finds it s way thus providing a stark contract to snow or gloomy winter skies.

At Yuletide the dark green of the fir tree is decorated with shiny objects and tiny lights so that it almost yells the “story of the season” into the dark world:  There has come Light!

Though a tree does not think, I ponder the apparent metaphor  from the sparkling trees’ contribution to holiday joy.  Perhaps the change at Holidays could be carried through the year more clearly if we as individuals decided that we were willing to pick up the sparkle and twinkle in our own lives.

What if we were the light that helped others all year long, you know, to get through the inevitable dark stuff of life?  Maybe then, we would be the heralds of joy and light  for all the seasons rather than the dark invaders who for one season feign joy and light. We could become the everlasting extension of the joy brought to homes and offices throughout the land at Christmastime!

Take a hint from the fir tree. Give yourself a twinkle uplift for 2012!  Let the light shine from the Spirit of Christmas in you, through your daily routines and inevitable dilemmas, then back to you as a blessing from others who gratefully receive yours . . . all year long.

Twinkle, twinkle little you. . . Hear the Christmas Tree’s great metaphor for Joy!

Merry Christmas and a Twinkling New Year 2012!

By Sandra Shelton