Surprised to see me with a Christmas Tree ???
Let me explain.
While there is all the enthusiasm, exhilaration and excitement when it goes up…. bringing the Christmas Tree down and wrapping it back is another story.
For almost 2 decades now our household has had this custom of putting the Christmas tree up with all sorts of decorations just before Christmas and bringing it down after 12 days.
For the uninitiated – a Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.
According to popular tradition, you should take your tree down on January 5th, because this is the final day of the 12 days of Christmas – otherwise known as Twelvetide.
It all begins on Christmas Day, December 25, and lasts right through until January 6, which is recognised as Three Kings’ Day or Epiphany.
While there are several more stories around this, for me it is nostalgic and a way to celebrate the holiday season seeking blessings from the lord for everyone known to us and our family.
My quest for the best plum cake continues every year and this year I specially flew it from Kochi in Kerala (they seem to know their plum cake the best).
We get busy around the January 6 to slowly take it down, wrap the usable stuff, trinkets, decorations etc.
And then 3 lessons remain with me and my family through the year from our Christmas Tree :
1. Be a light in the darkness.
2. Sparkle and twinkle as often as possible.
3. Bring joy to others.
Hope that offers you some #Clarity now on my picture with the Christmas Tree.
Wishing each one of you lots of love, happiness, abundance and the very best in #2023.