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David and Linda attended a neighbor's Christmas gathering. Shortly after dark the group participated in an Advent spiral ceremony. The site was a 12-15 foot spiral pattern of green bough. In the center was a lone candle under the bare winter trees near the farmhouse. It started with a reading. (12.11.04)

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Beginning with the children, each would follow the inward path carrying a cored apple containing an unlit candle while the group stood around the outside of the spiral singing Christmas carols. Once at the center their candle was lit from the original candle and they carried the apple based candle back, setting it along the bough on the path out of the spiral. (12.11.04)

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Here Linda lights her candle, one of thirty that would illuminate the spiral. (12.11.04)

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