But as much as I love Christmas lights, I must confess that when it comes to stringing them up on the family tree, it’s really not one of my favorite holiday activities or cup of peppermint tea. For after a while of attempting to untangle and fix the old broken strands, I can become “the grinch that stole Christmas,” with an unfettered will to suddenly stuff the tree up the chimney. For it’s far less consternating to me, to go to the store and buy new ones, than waste all my Christmas cheer on broken strands of misery.
“But maybe, just maybe, the old grinch, said to himself… Maybe ‘Christmas light’ doesn’t come from a store or even an evergreen tree.”
Now many of you may know that the origin of the custom of Christmas lights, goes back to when evergreen trees were brought by Christians into their homes, in early modern Germany. That were then decorated with candles, that symbolized Christ, being the “light of the world” and that is why this traditional custom continues to this day ...
