The other day we went to an English class held by a Hungarian pastor in his home. Our purpose was to tell how we celebrate Christmas in the USA. I never imagined that Hungarians would ever want to hear about how we celebrate Christmas in the USA. Some like our decorative and culinary ideas so why not throw in some of our spiritual ideas along with the mix? Our decorative and culinary customs are not necessarily exclusive of North America since they were brought in by immigrants from all over the world. Of course neither are the spiritual concepts we embrace exclusive of the USA or of the English language. However, we find great opportunity to communicate such grand Christian theologies of redemption and salvation through something as simple as a candy cane we hang on a Christmas tree. The good old candy cane, something we take for granted, came in quite handy to help us explain propitiation of sins by the red blood of the pure Lamb of God and how Jesus is our Good Shepherd. Also, we told about our family custom of reading the Christmas story from Luke's Gospel. Sometimes God uses simple people, a simple message, and a simple candy cane.