Steve Webb  0:01  
Hello and Merry Christmas. This is day 16 of the 2022 encore of the 2009 season of the Lifespring Why Christmas Show. The show is hosted by James Cooper, creator of white christmas.com and me the OG God casters Steve Webb, creator of Lifespring media.com and host of over 3000 podcast episodes, including the Lifespring family Audio Bible, where we're currently reading through the entire Bible in a year. On this show, we're having a drawing where one lucky winner will win an autographed copy of Brian Duncan's and Neil sold Christmas CD. For details on how you can enter go to Lifespring media.com/day Nine to see how that's Lifespring media.com/d Ay y numeral nine no spaces every day from now to Christmas day you'll hear an episode from the 2009 season of this show. If you're not yet subscribed, or following the show, you can do that at LifespringWhyChristmas dot show and this is a value for value podcast The show is free but if you're enjoying these little bits of Christmas goodness every day perhaps you'd be willing to show James and I some appreciation by sending a Christmas gift our way if you'd like to do that, here's where to go live stream mania dots comm slash thoughts if you'd like to send micro payments or send boosts or booster grams, this is a podcasting 2.0 enabled show. If you have any questions about that, email me at Steve at Lifespring media.com I'll fill you in on all the details. And now you're ready for the show. Let's go

James Cooper  1:35  
Hello and welcome to Day 16 of the Lifespring why Christmas shed. Today I'm going to be telling you a bit about putting city as open city as the Christmas flowers that have some different pronunciations, but originally come from a place in southern Mexico called Tex code del Alarcon. The ancient as text use the red leaves or Brax. The ancient Aztecs use their red flowers also known as Braxton to make a purple dye for clothing as cosmetics and then milky white sap was the first form of latex and they used it as a medicine to treat fevers. The poinsettia was made widely known because of a man called Joel Robert Poinsett. That's where we get the name from. He was the first ambassador from the USA to Mexico in 1825. He sent it to a friend of a friend called Robert Buddhist, a plantsman from Pennsylvania. And he was the first person to sell poinsettias under their botanical or Latin name, which is Euphorbia poached cherry Ma, which means the most beautiful Euphorbia the shape of the poinsettias, flowers and leaves are sometimes thought to represent the Star of David or the Star of Bethlehem which brought the wise men to Jesus. If you'd like to know more about poinsettias, then head on over to whychristmas.com Make sure you come back tomorrow when Steve will be telling you about something that's very associated with the traditional Christmas dinner, the Christmas pudding and if you'd like to listen to any of the other Lifespring media shows, then head on over to Lifespring media.com Thanks for listening to day 16 of the Lifespring Why Christmas show

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