The Christmas Candy Cane

My children brought this story home from their religion class last year and I had never heard it before so thoguht you might enjoy this also. The candy became known
as the Candy-Cane ... A decoration seen at Chrstmas time. But the meaning is still there for those who know the real story of how the candy cane became to be.

A Candymaker in Indiana wanted to make a candy
that would be a witness, 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. White to symbolize the Virgin Birth and the sinless nature of Jesus and hard to symbolize the Solid Rock, the foundation of the Church, and firmness of the promise of God.

The candymaker made the candy in the form of a "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 into the ditches of the world to lift out the fallen lambs who, like all sheep, have gone astray.

Thinking that the candy was somewhat plain, the candymaker stained it with red stripes. He used three small
stripes to show the stripes of the scourging Jesus received by which we are healed. The large red stripe was for the blood shed by Christ on the cross so that we could have the promise of eternal life.

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