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TRIVIA:
Candy canes are bent at the top to resemble a shepherd’ crook, a symbol of Jesus. TRUE. According to a popular legend, a 17th-century German choirmaster handed out sugar sticks to his young singers during a Christmas service as a way to keep them quiet when they were not singing. The white stripes represent Jesus’s sinless life, the red his sacrificial blood.

TRIVIA:
The Hallmark Channel is the most-watched cable network of the hoiday season among women 18 and older.

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“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.”
~~~ C. S. Lewis

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”The good news of great joy changed the course of every silent night to come.”
~~~ Alicia Bruxvoort

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”Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.”
~~~ Oren Arnold

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“The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn’t matter what mood you’re in, or what kind of year you’ve had–it’s a fresh start.”
~~~ Kelly Clarkson

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“In God’s sight, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas whenever we rediscover the simplicity of His love and bow down in thankfulness and whatever our circumstances.”
~~~ David Jeremiah

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”Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
~~~ Calvin Coolidge

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”When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togethernessof friends and family that made that Christmas special.”
~~~ Catherine Pulsifer

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“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”
~~~ Charles Dickens

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“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
~~~ Luke 2:14

QUOTE:
“I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play
And wild and sweet, the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men.”
~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow