The Friendship Stone Christmas Message

Christmas is the best time of year for some families.  It is the time when the kids are on holiday; the time for decorating the Christmas tree and unravelling the fairy lights that someone thoughtfully squashed into a cardboard box last year; a time for spending hours wrapping a Christmas friendship gift and stirring the Christmas pudding; stomping feet in the snow to warm them up during the carol singing; a time for appreciating the smell of roasting turkey.

 

Most children will tell you that Christmas is their favorite time of year.  It is the excitement of Santa stories and hauling a Christmas tree home that is at least three feet taller than the ceiling; the music and laughter and sorely missed older brothers and sisters expected home from college for the holidays. 

 

For little kids left at home when older brothers and sisters are away studying, Christmas can be bitter sweet as they anxiously wait to hear a car on the driveway.  Emotions can be stretched to the limit at Christmas, especially when it is over; the fun and celebrations are done and it is time for tearful departures.

 

Going away from home again can be both exciting and upsetting for kids who are studying far away.  For small brothers and sisters, who might be too young to understand why such absences are necessary, this is a time when a Friendship Stone is a comforting connection. 

 

The Friendship Stone is a beautiful Tiger’s Eye.  Naturally tumbled with other stones to ensure its satiny and unique surface, it is a perfect piece of the earth itself and will warm to body temperature if worn next to the skin.  The perfect Christmas friendship gift, it can be carried in a pocket or school bag, placed on a desk and used as a paper weight, or worn as a necklace for little kids who might lose a loose stone.

 

A Christmas friendship gift of a Friendship Stone could provide that important connection for brothers and sisters parted in term time.  The Friendship Stone is entirely unique and no two stones are alike, just as no two people are the same.  For kids who are missing a special brother or sister too far away to hug, the Friendship Stone is solid and comforting; it can be held in the hand and kept close; a reminder that big brother or sister will home again soon.

 

This year, as we rush to get the Christmas menu under way and stress about whether the turkey is too big to fit into the oven and worry about getting the guest room ready for visitors, perhaps we should remember the youngest members of the family and how they feel when they are left behind as older brother and sisters leave for college.  To help forge a bond and a connection, try giving a Christmas friendship gift of a Friendship Stone that little hands can hold and find some comfort in – until it is their turn for college…