Jeremiah 10

1Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

1)What did Chevy Chase plan to buy with his Christmas bonus in National Lampoon’s "Christmas Vacation(movie)?
2)Where does the tradition of kissing under mistletoe come from?
3)Where and when did the custom of having and decorating Christmas trees originate?
4)What famous person gave Santa a workshop at the North Pole,a wife and a sleigh?
5)What was the first Christmas movie ever made?
6)What do you think is Santa’s favorite Christmas tree ornament?
7)How did the wise men find the manger where baby Jesus lay?
8)Santa’s little helpers and toy builders are known as what?
9)What is Santa’s favorite Christmas Eve snack?
10)What name is Santa Claus also known as?
11)What is Santa’s Slay powered by?
12)How does Santa usually enter a house on Christmas Eve?
13)Why does Rudolph get to lead Santa’s sleigh?
14)What is the name of the tree that people have display in their window at Christmas time(name of the kind of tree it is rather than a Christmas tree)?
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1. In ground Pool

2. Quite a while back, possibly a pagan/Celtic/Scandinavian thing, the mistletoe was seen as a fertility herb and aphrodisiac. Women would wear it around their middle, hoping that it would lend its magical powers to their fertility. This was believed about it due to its being alive in the winter in otherwise dead-looking trees, which you can understand pre-scientific people could get excited about. I bet its ability to spring up out of nowhere and be born on a tree ‘magically’ would have also added to the belief.

Apparently, because of its sacred properties, if enemies ever passed under it they had to lay down their swords for a day and leave each other alone. It’s fair to assume this led to it becoming a sign of friendship and good will. There’s also the idea that if two people in love kiss under it, they are committing to each other and will be happy together too.

3. 16th century, Germany

5. The Homecoming

6. Anything with his face on it.

7. They followed a star

8. elves

9. cookies and milk

10. saint nick

11. reindeer

12. through the chimney

13. cause he has a red nose

Right? You guys do it too, right? Or am I the only one?

We do it too… one for each animal.

Yeps.. we’re weird!

My second is each year my kids, husband and myself all get together one night and make a Christmas ornament (signed and dated). We have years of ornaments from all of our children from thier first Christmas till now. On thier first Christmas if they were to small to make one we would buy one for them with thier name and year engraved on it. We have alot of fun making them as a family and my husband and I will have so many fond memories once our children are grown and on thier own. And when we are gone we will pass them onto them.

Just has to be the barbecue back at the campsite, we love touring the westcountry (Devon, Cornwall) and there is nothing quite like sitting around a barbecue, have a few drinks with the family watching the sky on fire as the sun goes down and listening to the wildlife and maybe watching a few fallow deer in the nearby woodland.

Stop claiming Christmas is "your" holiday, or that anyone is killing it, or stealing it from you. If anything you’re the ones who, to put it lightly, "borrowed" a couple of traditions to fabricate a holiday of your own.

There’s no "putting the Christ back in Christmas", he wasn’t apart of the holiday in the first place. Seeing that sticker on your car is just going to get it a wad of spit if I pass it by in a parking-lot.

They’ve been decorating trees with ornaments and exchanging gifts on the Winter Solstice since long before Christ was ever born.
to cupcake: If you followed the links, you’d find that early Christians were arguing whether it was a day worthy of celebration or not. It’s just that over time, they obviously decided to, and created a holiday out of it by mashing together a couple of old traditions. The average American doesn’t know this, that’s why the subject should be openly-discussed, ignorance is a plague.

You’re just trying to piss em off. he he.

She was called the Angel Lady for the ornaments she made,
She carved them out of scraps of fir and pine,
They echoed a belief she held from which she never strayed,
That angels are around us all the time.
She first received her calling with a heart consumed by grief,
The year her loving husband passed away,
She found that carving offered her a measure of relief
And it brought a sense of purpose to her day.
And then when Christmas came with all the memories it brings,
And clouds of sadness fell upon her heart,
She carved her husband’s likeness with a pair of angel wings,
And magically the clouds began to part.
She fixed it with a piece of string and hung it on the tree,
He always loved the smell of fresh cut fir,
And when she sat beside the tree to carve a bit
or read,
She felt his loving presence close to her.
When others saw the ornament, her neighbors and her friends,
They marveled at how lifelike it appeared,
They begged her to consider carving ornaments for them
Of loved ones they had lost throughout the years.
And so her mission started and her reputation spread,
As orders came from cities far and wide,
From people who were seeking some remembrance of their dead,
And comfort from the pain they felt inside.
The children were the hardest and it often made her weep,
To carve their childish features in the pine,
But late at night a voice would reassure her in her sleep
That angels were around them all the time.
And one day she received a special letter in her box
From a boy whose family dog had passed away,
She thought about it briefly and then asked herself "why not?"
And she started carving pets that very day.
For twenty years she carved until her hands were old and tired
And all her youthful energy was gone,
But her belief in angels always made her feel inspired
And helped her find the strength to carry on.
And then one Christmas day a neighbor found her in her chair,
Her heart no longer sounding its commands,
With shavings all around her, in her clothing and her hair,
Her carving blade still nestled in her hand.
And as the medics came and slowly wheeled her to the door,
Her grieving friends were too distraught to see,
The photograph that rested right beside her on the floor
Or the newest little angel on the tree.
It hung there by her husbands like two birds upon a limb,
A woman carved in wood still wet with stain,
Her head was turned and she was smiling lovingly at him,
And he was looking back at her the same.
Like all the other angels she had carved throughout her days,
The image was so real it chilled the spine,
And engraved upon the bottom was this very simple phrase,
"Angels are around us all the time,"

Yes! Where is it?