The Christmas Candle

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This is a great story of hope and miracles.
Very touching. Very encouraging. It emphasizes how God always wants to answer our prayers, and in a beautiful way. An ideal book to read at Christmas time.

Nice story. Fast read. The movie is better.

About the Book:

Journey back to a simpler time, to a small English village where nothing out of the ordinary ever happens. Except at Christmastime.

When a mysterious angel suddenly appears in a lowly candlemaker's shop, the holy and the human collide in a way that only God could imagine.

Glowing bright with a timeless message, "The Christmas Candle" will warm your heart with a surprising reminder of God's bountiful love.

My Review:

With Christmas in the far off distance, its nice to settle down with a nice, big mug of hot chocolate by a roaring fire with a book full of inspiration that just gives you a good feeling all over. It makes you just wish it was Christmas was here already.

The Christmas Candle does just that. It is a heart warming story of a multi-generational family chosen to good to their neighbors through a visit by an angel that touched a candle that when given away preformed miracles in the lives of the towns people.

Edward Haddington owns the towns local candle shop and he always makes the Christmas candles for the church. One night after a late night of working he is visited by a angel that has a light so bright that it illuminates the room. He watches dumbfounded and amazed as this angel touches one of the candles he has made. When he gives that particular candle to someone at his church, he as well as the entire town is captivated by the life that was transformed as a result of this gift.

**Disclosure** This book was sent to me free of charge for my honest review from Booksneeze.

Heartwarming story, sweetly acted, lovely song.

We are doing the movie at the Senior Home and giving this book away as a prize. They cant wait for the big show.

So touching

Max Lucado is a storyteller par excellent! His craft is on full display in the engaging short story “The Christmas Candle.”

Lucado takes us back to Victorian-era England, to the small village of Cotswolds. Nothing much seems to happen in this little village, except for a visit from an angel every 25 years to one specific family. The Haddington family have been candle-makers for as far back as anyone can remember. Every quarter-century, just before Christmas, an angel appears in the Haddington’s shop and points out one special candle. When this unique candle is given away by the Haddingtons to an individual, they can pray for a miracle and expect that God will answer that prayer.

Lucado’s story centers on a time when the angel should be appearing soon. But Mr. and Mrs. Haddington are older now, and worried that they don’t have an heir to which the candle-making trade can be passed on, the townspeople are in more desperate need than ever before, and the village’s new pastor is highly skeptical about the so-called “miracle qualities” of an ordinary looking candle.

The message Lucado is able to drive home through this story is truly a God-given gift that will encourage your faith. Whether you read this book at Christmas time or not, you will be uplifted in your faith in God’s power to do the miraculous!

I really liked this book, good reading.

This was a gift for my wife and she liked it a lot