I've heard lots of people try to explain how the candy cane relates to Christmas, but none have made as much sense as Jacque's. Today was their last day of school, and they were given candy canes at school. I'm pretty sure she came up with these reasons on her own. As we were driving home, and she was sucking on her candy cane, she told me all about why we celebrate Christmas with candy canes:
1. If you turn it upside down, it makes a J for Jesus.
2. When you suck on it, the red stripes come off and it makes it all white, like Jesus is all clean.
3. The red stripes can represent sin. When you stir you hot chocolate, it "washes" off the red stripes and leaves a white candy cane, kind of like baptism washes off sin.
4. The candy cane needs to have a brown stripe for Jesus' hair. The stripes are red on top of white like the red thing (robe) that he wears on top of his white thing (gown).
1 comment:
Good thinking Jacque! I love it.
Jesus is the reason for Christmas and all things should remind us of Jesus.
Love you. G'ma
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