Christmas cards have message by local author

Christmas cards authored by a Farmington resident are for sale at St.Paul Lutheran Church for $10 per package to benefit the St. Paul youth group.

The cards feature a poem showing symbolism between the elements of the Christmas tree and the life and death of Christ. The poem is also in the shape of a Christmas tree. 

“Wouldn’t Christmas be so much more meaningful if every time we saw a Christmas tree we were reminded of how much God loves us?” says Zarcone. “This poem came to me as I was taking a walk. Seeing Christmas trees in the windows of my neighborhood, I began to ponder “Hmm, evergreen tree, everlasting life, He died on a tree, light of the World, stars ....”

Zarcone tells how she ran home and wrote her thoughts down as fast as she could. “It was the first real poem I had written outside of a school assignment. That was about 20 years ago and I didn’t know what to do with it. With my friends and family’s encouragement, this year I printed the cards on my own.”

Zarcone is hoping possibly a national greeting card company may pick it up.

“Several years after I wrote the poem, I heard the tradition that Martin Luther brought in the first Christmas tree with much the same symbolism that I had seen. In researching this, I found there is some dispute over the origins of the Christmas tree.

“We may never know for certain where the Christmas tree began but I can definitely see the symbolism there for the life and death of Christ. Christmas is ‘pregnant’ with meaning if we are alert enough to see it,” Zarcone explains.

The cards, packaged 10 to a set complete with envelopes, are available at several area merchants as well as St. Paul Lutheran Church.

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