"In the Stillness" from the Junkyard Tales: All Together Now collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. |
| 0:14.4 | And as we're sharing this episode, it's just a few days to Christmas here in the United |
| 0:19.0 | States and around the world. |
| 0:20.8 | And for those that celebrate |
| 0:21.7 | Christmas, it's an exciting, exciting time. There are other wonderful other world religions |
| 0:28.0 | celebrating holidays at the same time, too. So I have discovered a story that I forgot about. |
| 0:36.8 | Sometimes stories, gems of stories, disappear into the |
| 0:40.8 | library and they resurface at just the right time. And I go, oh, wow, this one is wonderful. |
| 0:48.0 | And this story is just like that. And it's perfect for this moment. It's called In the Stillness. It's from the Junkyard |
| 0:57.1 | Tales All Together Now Collection. Let me tell you a bit about it. So in the story, it's a cold, |
| 1:03.1 | snowy day. And a single muskrat arrives to the back gate. She has some incredible news. |
| 1:09.8 | She's going to have a baby. |
| 1:12.6 | So you know the junkyard. |
| 1:14.6 | Those animals rally and they make her a warm bed, find her nourishing food, and they circle up to anticipate the arrival of that new baby. |
| 1:25.6 | So whether you celebrate Christmas or not, this story is a wonderful tale about a |
| 1:32.4 | community coming together to support a newcomer in a vulnerable moment. Beautiful and inspiring. |
| 1:40.4 | And here's something even more exciting. We are running our big sale of the year right now in December. |
| 1:50.4 | It's our gift subscription sale. |
| 1:53.1 | We take 20% off all gift subscriptions from a year all the way down to a month. |
| 1:59.9 | And you can not only give these to the people that you love, but you can give them to yourself. |
| 2:05.2 | If you go to the website, SparklStories.com and look up in the top right, there's a little pink |
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