Most
of us at sometime or another have decorated a green pine tree for Christmas,
with lights, a star at the top and hanging ornaments on the branches. And some
still put tinsel which look so much like icicles
There
is a story about the origin of tinsel.
This tradition is about the tale of the Christmas spider, which led to
the reason for tinsel at Christmas.
The story is that a woman immaculately cleaned her house for Christmas. All
the house spiders were swept to the corners of the house with nowhere to go. And
the woman put up her bare tree with on decorations
The spiders learned there was a beautiful Christmas tree in the room and
wanted to take a closer look. The spiders saw it, loved it so much, and danced
all over it. All the spiders left their webs behind, covering the whole tree.
Then the Baby Jesus saw the beautiful webs and miraculously transformed
them into silver and gold tinsel so the woman who worked so hard to clean her
house would be filled with joy
In honor of that story or tale, people hang tinsel of silver and gold on
their Christmas trees. Whether it’s true or not, I don’t know, but we do know
that every decoration we hang, every Christmas carol we sing, every candy cane
we give away, should lead us to that stable where we find the our new born Savior.
Make
this Christmas a truly "Merry Christmas, but most importantly a Blessed
Christmas" by giving Jesus, a heart that gives and prays for all those who
don’t have what you have.
And
to all a Merry Christmas
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