Jack’s Winning Words 10/5/18
“People love company, even if it is only a small burning candle.”  (George Lichtenberg)  Don’t invite a fire fighter to a candlelight dinner or leave burning candles unattended.  Even if you’re in a romantic mood, he/she will be blowing the candles out, because they can be a fire hazard.  My step-father (a Fire Chief) would do that all the time.  Candles start two out of five home structure fires.  For romance, dim the lights and play Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood.”  ;-)   Jack

FROM ST PAUL IN ST PAUL:  two out of five?  wow.    i suspect another one or two would be smoking in bed.  plus faulty electric space heaters and then Christmas tree fires, etc.   be safe, ===JACK:  For the Christmas Eve Candlelight Services, the handheld "candles" are now battery powered.  Not the same effect, but safer (and cleaner).  The Fire Marshal likes it.===PAUL:  .  i am now going to blow out some candles:):)  and yes,  the Christmas Eve services always left the fabric pew covers full of wax and it was almost impossible to get them clean again.  we now have all new pew covers and carpeting too.  hate to see all that get "waxed".   but i am no longer in charge:):):)

FROM SHALOM JAN:  My personal experience with home fires is limited, but of the ones that have affected me in any way (three) one was started by a citronella candle left burning in the night and the other two by a globe ceiling light and a bathroom fan motor, so I'm more frightened by the people in the apartment below mine keeping their bathroom fan running for hours and hours when there is no one home.  Of course, I have no idea if they're burning candles at the same time!===JACK:  When I was in Sunday School, each Sunday when someone had a birthday, a real candle was lit on a fake birthday cake, and everyone would sing...":Jesus bids us shine, With a clear, pure light,  Like a little candle burning in the night; In this world of darkness, we must shine,  You in your small corner,
And I in mine."  The Fire Dept was never called.

FROM KF:  When our children were small I taught them to hold back their hair when blowing out birthday candles. Candles worry me; we have lots of battery operated fake candles at our house : ) ===JACK:  It only takes once to say,  "I shoulda..."