Steve Webb  0:02  
Hi, this is day three of the 2022 encore of the 2009 season of the Lifespring White Christmas show welcome the shows hosted by my friend James Cooper of white christmas.com. And me the OG God caster and host of over 3000 podcast episodes it Lifespring media.com. Every day from now to Christmas day you'll hear an episode from our 2009 season. If you're not yet subscribed or following the show, you can do that at Lifespring why Christmas dot show. And if you enjoy the show, and we'd like to give some value back you can do that at Lifespring White Christmas dot show slash support. Or you can stream SATs and send booster grams using a modern podcast app. Look at your podcast app. Do you see a boost button? If not get a better app for free at new podcast apps.com Enjoy the show.

James Cooper  0:56  
Hello, and welcome to day three of the Lifespring by Christmas show for 2009. Today I'm going to be taking a quick look at Christmas trees. Now did you know that fir trees have been used for 1000s of years to celebrate the winter solstice Festival, where people walk branches into their homes to remind them that spring was on the way. The first documented use of a Christmas tree is in 1510 in the Latvian capital of Riga. The first person to bring Christmas trees into a house might have been the 16th century German preacher Martin Luther, or another story says it's st Boniface of Crediton, which is a place in Devon which is not too far away from me here in the UK. In Germany, the first Christmas trees were decorated with things you could eat, such as gingerbread and gold leaf covered apples and glassmakers started making small ornaments that people used on their tree instead. When people also used to use real candles on their Christmas trees, and of course that was a bit dangerous because trees like to catch fire quite well. So in 1895 Thankfully, an American telephone engineer called Ralph Morris invented the first electric Christmas lights. You can find out more about Christmas trees over at www dot white christmas.com. We'll come back tomorrow to find out something else about Christmas.

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