Rocking Carol
Czech traditional Music and lyrics authorship
unknown
Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir
We will lend a coat of fur
We will rock you, rock you, rock you
We will rock you, rock you, rock you
See the fur to keep you warm
Snugly round your tiny form.
Mary's little baby, sleep, sweetly sleep
Sleep in comfort, slumber deep
We will rock you, rock you, rock you
We will rock you, rock you, rock you
We will serve you all we can
Darling, darling little man.
Some people believe the origins of the Christmas tree lie in a kind of mystical symbolism. In fact, a mixture of symbols showing us glimpses of what the creator has to offer.
Representing
light and the movement of angels, the gifts of orchard and field, forest, and
sea, all capped off by the star that pointed to the end of the journey, the
place of peace.
You
may well think what a load of contrived tosh or you may not.
Or
you may decide the truth of it is that the Christmas tree is as a result of the
merging or fusion of Christian and pagan festivals namely Christmas and the
winter solstice, saturnalia or Mithras.
It was In Victorian England that one of the largest Christmas crackers’ ever to be created.
It was made for a renowned actor called Harry Payne.
Payne was appearing as a clown in a Pantomime at the
Drury lane theatre when the cracker was delivered.
It was over seven feet in length and contained a change
of costume for the whole cast as well as hundreds of small crackers that the
cast threw to the children in the audience to their great excitement.
In this uplifting Christmas offering Gideon (Harry Dean Stanton) is a Christmas angel, sent by Santa, to help wife and mother Ginny Grainger (Mary Steenburgen).
He
must show her the true meaning of Christmas, not just presents and
materialistic things, but the people she cares most about in the world, however
it is no easy task as Ginny is a cynic, and furthermore she hates Christmas.
And
in addition, She and her family, husband Jack (Gary Basaraba) and two kids, Cal (Robbie Magwood) and Abbie (Elisabeth Harnois) have fallen on hard times, making it even
harder for her to believe in anything that can't be seen.
But
Gideon thinks he can find a way to make Ginny believe again with help from
Abbie, and a trip to the North Pole to see the big man himself.
Candy Canes,
Cinnamon
and Ginger
Are
some of my favourite
Christmas
things
Especially
when
They’re
only wearing
Christmas
Stockings
And
Popcorn Strings
The Benson family are on their way through a blizzard to a luxury resort for the Christmas holiday when their car breaks down.
They are rescued by mechanic Coleman Burkins
(Phillip Jarrett) and taken to Nowhere, a sleepy Colorado town, which was more
like a Ghost Town since the local mine closed.
Due to weather and the required spare part
for the car being in another town the family end up being stuck in the dying
town until the weather clears.
Initially they are appalled, no shopping
Mall, no latte’s, cell service or cable TV but they do find things to do.
Banker Charles Benson's son Nolan (Azer
Greco) befriends the grumpy old toy shop owner and persistently charms him into
becoming the Santa in the Christmas pageant which his mother Annie (Lauren
Holly) helped to organize with local diner owner Samantha (Stephanie Belding).
Daughter Trish (Torri Webster) discovered a
young band and joins in to perform a set at the pageant.
In between everything else Charles got stuck
in the mine with the mechanic, whom he befriended, and in the end Charles turns
out to be the towns Christmas benefactor.
In the 11th century during advent short plays were performed called mysteries and these were very popular.
There
was one in particular about paradise in which a tree was decorated with red
apples to symbolize the tree of paradise this eventually led.to the 15th
century practice of the faithful putting up small trees in their own houses on
December 24, which was the feast day of Adam and Eve
