The Christmas Candle
On a dark, snowy Christmas Eve, a young man hurrying home for a family celebration enters a chandler’s shop to buy a candle for his lantern. He scoffs at the beautifully sculpted creations of the old chandler and instead purchases a simple, inexpensive Christmas candle that the chandler warns him he may find costly.
The young man soon realizes that the old man meant, as the poor and ill he encounters on his journey, illuminated by his Christmas candle, become the faces of his relatives, so he feels compelled to help them. he arrives home cold and penniless, but richer for his newfound realization that we are all part of one family.
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This is a beautiful story about a man who is given new sight when he buys a candle to light his way in the dark. The candle maker made a strange remark about the “Christmas Candle” being costly even though it really wasn't expensive. He soon finds out what the man meant as he sees the face of family members in each wandering beggar he saw. Thinking they were his family he gave what he had to help them only to find the light of the candle had deceived them. His heart was changed as his heart saw each person in a different light.
This book also have beautiful artwork by Jacob Collins that makes it even more special.
