Once
upon a time there was a lonely little Christmas Tree Toy. She was a pretty little thing; a beautiful
red heart, which had been made with lots of love and care. But she was sad and lonely as she sat in a
house all on her own …
She
remembered the kind and happy old man who had made her. He’d taken so much care when he carved her
from the huge plank of wood from which she and her friends had come from. She had no idea what had happened to all of
her friends. The last she remembered of
them, they’d all been hanging together on a branch in a shop. And then a lovely lady came along &
gently looked at them all, before deciding to take away the beautiful red
heart.
The
beautiful red heart was happy and excited; she knew that she must be
special. She was the Christmas Tree Toy
that the lovely lady had chosen. And
because she was such a lovely lady, the beautiful red heart felt safe in the
knowledge that she would be going to a lovely warm home, to hang on a beautiful
Christmas Tree and make lots of new friends with the Christmas Tree Toys
already hanging there. She was wrapped
up nice and warm and safe in tissue paper so the lovely lady could take her
home.
But
the beautiful red heart was disappointed when she got home with the lovely lady
because she just put her to one side and left her there, and the beautiful red
heart began to feel sad and lonely, wishing she was still with her friends in
the Christmas shop. She’d been told to
expect such delights when someone came along to take her to their home … but
the beautiful red heart thought she must have just been forgotten about, cast
aside in her Christmas wrapping …
And
then one day, the beautiful red heart heard happy voices and her heart rose as
she felt herself being picked up by the lovely lady and being given to a
gorgeous girl. The gorgeous girl
carefully opened the tissue paper in which the beautiful little red heart was
nestled.
The
beautiful red heart was feeling so happy and excited … what was about to happen
to her? The gorgeous girl took one look
at the beautiful red heart and her face lit up with a huge smile and she said; “You
are so beautiful. You can have pride of
place on my Christmas Tree this year!”
The
beautiful red heart was so very happy to hear this. She knew that at last, she was going to find
her home on a beautiful Christmas Tree full of friends …
But
wait. No!! The gorgeous girl is leaving and she’s left
the beautiful red heart behind. The
beautiful red heart screams at the top of her voice; “Stop! Wait for me!
You’ve forgotten me!”
But
the gorgeous girl doesn’t hear her, and the beautiful red heart begins to cry
as she realises she’s being left behind.
The gorgeous girl mustn’t want her after all. She’s not going to spend her Christmas on a
gorgeous Christmas Tree after all. The lovely
lady spots the beautiful red heart sitting on the side and carefully wraps her
up in her tissue paper, and puts her to one side.
Back
to being the lonely little Christmas Tree Toy without a Christmas Tree.
The lonely little Christmas Tree Toy spends a
few days feeling sorry for herself, part wrapped up still in her tissue paper,
wondering what fate has in store for her.
And
then one day, she looks around and notices the lovely lady with a box full of
Christmas decorations. She feels herself
begin to get excited. Might she have a
Christmas Tree to hang on after all?
She
watches the lovely lady take a Christmas Tree out of the box. But this doesn’t seem right. It’s black.
Aren’t Christmas Trees supposed to be green? And aren’t they supposed to be big and
bold? This one is tiny. The beautiful red heart can see just how tiny
it is when she sees the lovely lady’s cat sat next to it. The tree is no bigger than the cat! There’s no room for the beautiful red heart
and lots of friends to hang on there.
She watches the lovely lady put small, brightly coloured baubles and
tinsel on the tree … but there’s no room for her.
The
beautiful red heart’s excitement begins to fade as she realises, that this
Christmas Tree isn’t for her.
Back
to being the lonely little Christmas Tree Toy without a Christmas Tree.
The
lonely little Christmas Tree Toy snuggles back down inside her tissue paper,
dreaming of Christmas Trees and all the friends she was going to meet
there. She thinks about all of her
friends in the shop, all of the Christmas Tree Toys who were cut from the same
plank of wood as she was. Where are they
all now? “Are they still hanging in the shop?” she
thinks. “At least they’ll still have each
other and won’t be all alone like me.”
The
lonely little Christmas Tree Toy spends a few more days feeling sad and sorry
for herself. And then one day, the
lovely lady picks her up.
“I
wonder where I’m going now?” the beautiful red heart thinks. “I hope it’s somewhere nice. But what if it’s not? What if I’m just going to be thrown
away? A lonely little Christmas Tree Toy
without a Christmas Tree to hang on, isn’t much good to any one.”
The
beautiful red heart was taken outside and carried by the lovely lady to a
different house. And when she got there,
she was surprised to see the gorgeous girl again. And as the lovely lady handed the beautiful
red heart to the gorgeous girl, the gorgeous girl looked so happy to see the beautiful
red heart again that her loneliness was swept away forever.
The
gorgeous girl took the beautiful red heart carefully out of her tissue paper,
and, as the beautiful red heart’s excitement built and built, she carried her
into a lovely warm living room and there, there was the Christmas Tree that the
beautiful red heart had dreamt about.
She felt filled with such love and happiness that all of her sadness was
washed away.
The
gorgeous girl gently hung the beautiful red heart onto the Christmas Tree, and
the beautiful red heart looked around her, she just knew that she was going to
be very, very happy hanging here. There
were lots of new friends just waiting to be made and she just knew, that she
was the heart beating at the centre of them all.
Love,
friendship, good luck and happiness would beat throughout that Christmas Tree
that year and through everyone who was lucky enough to see it … with it’s beautiful
red heart beating … beating at the heart of Christmas …
