Oh, how I thought I would enjoy writing a post on the history of Santa Claus. How a bishop named Nicholas gave gifts to orphans, reminding them of God’s love and of hope in the world. How that expanded to even adults getting gifts from loved ones! It is such a nice story, with so much that we have forgotten! Well …
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12 Days of Christmas
Some things are not as they seem, and if we judge something quickly, we may miss something very special about it. Several songs are that way. If you don’t know the background, or as Paul Harvey so often said, “The Rest of the Story” then you deprive yourself of beauty and warmth. One such example is the story behind this song. You may wonder how “The Twelve Days of Christmas” still fits into the 2020s. It is not simply an archaic design by the songwriter, it is much, much more!
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