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From: "Arild Kompelien" <>
Subject: Re: Woven Hearts
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 23:33:18 +0100
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From: "Lori Lauen" <>
Subject: Re: Woven Hearts


> Christmas is a reminder of the importence of having someone to love
and care
> for.
>
> My granddaughter made one of these hearts at Norwegian School here
in
> Canada. I agree that Christmas is a reminder of having someone to
love and
> care for but even more so to remember how much Christ cared for us.

> Lori

Don't want to start a discussion on this here, but since we are on
Norway list - allow me to mention that Christmas in Norwegian is
called Jul or Jol (and Yule in English), a word that is very old and
refers to traditions established long before christianity was
introduced in Norway.

hilsen
Arild Kompelien


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