"Don't cry, Little Tree," said a bear standing there.  "How would you know that you wouldn't grow, year after year?"

"Little Tree, please don't cry," said a squirrel nearby.

 

Then a blue jay, a chickadee, an owl wise and strong, a cardinal, and a woodpecker, with a beak very long, flew onto the tree and burst into song!  "Thank you, O' thank you! My friends, you are dear!  Now I'll be chosen, chosen this year!"  The Littlest Christmas Tree was happy that day, 'til thunder and lightning drove his friends away!

The kind Mother Tree was taken that night by a family who rode in a a sleigh.  She offered these words of comfort, before she was carried away.

All alone in the night, beneath stars glowing bright, the tree looked toward heaven for light.  A star sailing by in the twinkling sky shined its light on the Littlest Tree.  As it bathed in the light, on that one special night, the tree heard a voice say aloud ...

And The Light from above rekindled the love deep inside the Littlest Tree and the hill glowed that night, for the tree's love shined bright and happiness fell all around.

When Spring came at last to the trees on the hill, the Littlest Christmas Tree was wondering still, "Will I be chosen, chosen this year?"  And then came Summertime and the other trees grew, the Littlest Christmas Tree wondered anew, "Will I be chosen, chosen this year?"

And would you believe, that on Christmas Eve the Littlest Tree looked toward heaven, and the light from a star, in the heavens so far, caused the Littlest Tree to remember the Light from above and its message of love on that special night last December!  And the hill glowed that night, for the tree's love shined bright and happiness fell all around.

               

"O' Father, dear Father, please look over there," said the boy in the wheelchair, as he stared at the Littlest Tree.  "Yes, that is the one, it's so lovely, my son.  We'll bring it home for Christmas."

So the Littlest Christmas Tree went home at last, embraced in the little boy's care.  "Dear Little Tree, you're just like me," said the littlest boy in the chair.