The Candle and the Evergreen
"The tree shows the Light coming down to us. And the candle carries the Light from us to someone else."
On Christmas Eve, as snow hushes the world outside a little farmhouse, young Eli asks his grandfather two questions: Why do we put a candle in the window? And why do we bring a tree into the house?
Grandpa Silas smiles. Perhaps, he says, they have only one answer.
By lantern light, the two set out into the snowy woods to find "the tree that remembers," and Eli begins to see what the evergreen, the ornaments, and the star have been saying all along: that Love first came down to find us. Then, beside Grandma Ruth's old brass candlestick, Grandpa tells the story of a tradition carried across the sea from Ireland, and of the Christmas he nearly left the candle dark.
Told in lyrical prose and illustrated in luminous watercolor and pen, The Candle and the Evergreen is a tender story of family, grief, and hope, and of the Light born in Bethlehem that we are each given to carry to others.
A story to read aloud on Christmas Eve, year after year, and a beautiful way to begin a tradition of your own.
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