A Ball of Many Colors - Christmas Season 2011

A Ball of Many Colors

By: Janette Spencer Sprankle

Christmas 2011

It’s a Ball of Many Colors

And so simple in many ways,

But to me it means so very much

And is certainly perfect for display.

It came about one quiet day

After thoughts of what this ball could mean,

To me it represents the Christmas Season

And all the beauty that it brings
.

It sparkles with the lights that hit it

As the surface of it shines so bright,

The glistening of that colorful ball

Reminds us of God’s most Holy night.

Upon the Christmas tree this year

I thought of where the ball should hang,

With thoughts of Jesus as the small babe

And the angels in Heaven who to him sang.

I think of his mother Mary so dear

And what she went through to give him birth,

I took but just a minute or two

To think of what it meant to those on earth.

And as the three wise men came very far

With the star they followed, as it lit the way,

It brought them to God’s most precious gift,

Our Brother who laid there in a manger of hay.

And back to this Ball of Many Colors

It was made for all to see,

To remind us of His love we share

When we hang it on His Christmas Tree.