"Holiday Delight" from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection.
It's called "Holiday Delight."
Between all the decorating, baking, crafting and celebrating, this year's holiday season has been a very busy one for Martin and Sylvia. When they are suddenly faced with a day with no plans, however, brother and sister don't know what to do with themselves.
"Look for the delight," suggests Momma, and as soon as they do, the magic begins.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It's Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast as we continue sharing stories for the December holidays. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm sharing another Martin and Sylvia's story today because I cannot resist. |
| 0:22.7 | It's called holiday delight. |
| 0:25.1 | So we like to use the word delight a lot over here at Sparkle Stories. |
| 0:29.8 | It's largely because it's one of my favorite words. |
| 0:32.9 | I sort of think the word delight is equal to the word gratitude. |
| 0:37.0 | Because when I delight in something or |
| 0:40.1 | someone, it fills me up so much that I just know I'm radiating joy. Delight. Delight. So this story |
| 0:48.9 | is called holiday delight. Martin and Sylvia have been having a very busy season of making and crafting and baking |
| 0:56.7 | and celebrating. And then they have a day in which they're faced with no plans and they don't |
| 1:02.9 | know what they're going to do. And so Mama suggests that they look for the delight. Look for the delight. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm not going to say anymore because I want you to |
| 1:11.5 | experience the story and really consider what is this business of looking for the delight and how |
| 1:20.1 | does delight feel? Before I share the story, I want to encourage everyone who's not yet a subscriber to join us. |
| 1:30.9 | Subscribe to Sparkle Stories. It's easy and everyone starts for free. Just go to the website, SparklStories.com, |
| 1:38.6 | and click the button in the top right that says start free trial, then you can enjoy all our hundreds of holiday |
| 1:46.3 | stories, hundreds and hundreds of holiday stories, as well as our entire library of over |
| 1:51.9 | 1,500 original stories. And here's something even more exciting. We are running our big |
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| 2:14.1 | And you can not only give these to the people that you love, but you can give them |
| 2:17.9 | to yourself. If you go to the website, SparklStories.com, and look up in the top right, |
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