This year I made these: 
We hung them on all the neighbor's doors (54!) in our circle... on Christmas Eve around 8:30pm.
This was on the back:
The Legend
of The Candy Cane
A humble candy maker in
Indiana wanted to make a candy that
would be a special gift for the King of Kings,
so he made the Christmas Candy Cane. He incorporated
several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.
He began with a stick of pure white hard candy to symbolize
the Virgin Birth and sinless nature of Christ, and hard because the church
is built on solid rock, and firmness, for God’s promises are a firm foundation.
He formed it in the shape of the letter -J- to represent the precious name of Jesus,
who came to earth as our Savior. It could also represent the staff of the Good Shepherd
with which He reaches down in to the ditches of the world to lift out the fallen lambs
who, like all sheep, have gone astray. Then he added three small red stripes to represent
the scourging Jesus suffered on His way to the cross. One large red stripe would
remind those with eyes to see and ears to hear of the promise of eternal life. It would be a gift
of love that would
tell His story
-the greatest story ever told.
We hung them on all the neighbor's doors (54!) in our circle... on Christmas Eve around 8:30pm. This was on the back:
The Legend
of The Candy Cane
A humble candy maker in
Indiana wanted to make a candy that
would be a special gift for the King of Kings,
so he made the Christmas Candy Cane. He incorporated
several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ.
He began with a stick of pure white hard candy to symbolize
the Virgin Birth and sinless nature of Christ, and hard because the church
is built on solid rock, and firmness, for God’s promises are a firm foundation.
He formed it in the shape of the letter -J- to represent the precious name of Jesus,
who came to earth as our Savior. It could also represent the staff of the Good Shepherd
with which He reaches down in to the ditches of the world to lift out the fallen lambs
who, like all sheep, have gone astray. Then he added three small red stripes to represent
the scourging Jesus suffered on His way to the cross. One large red stripe would
remind those with eyes to see and ears to hear of the promise of eternal life. It would be a gift
of love that would
tell His story
-the greatest story ever told.
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