Merry Christmas!! from our family to yours!(Yikes, if I would have waited one day to take the tree photo it would have had lots of snow on it! Oh well!)
As you celebrate the birth of the King let everything point you to Him. He is the Light of the world - so all the Christmas lights you see point to Him - He is the Star of Christmas - so all the star decorations point to Him - (you get the idea).
Some people think it is odd that we have never had a Christmas tree. We try to decorate a tree outside for the birds but our tradition is to celebrate advent - the coming of Christ. We have an advent wreath that we decorate differently each year. In addition to the candles we also have our children pull strings. Ok, let me explain. We don't do stockings - instead we do stings. Each child has a bucket and we put little things tied to curling ribbon strings in the buckets. The items range from pencils, band aids, toys, etc.. Starting the day after Riley's birthday the children are allowed to pull one string each night - ending on Christmas Eve. My parents started this when I was young (and they still do a bag for me). I'm not sure how, when or why they did it but it is a very creative tradition that our children love. Another thing we do is to memorize a Christmas verse. We all memorize a verse or chapter - we did Psalm 23 one year. This year we are memorizing -
Habakkuk 3:17 & 18 - "Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior." NIV
Please feel free to memorize it with us - and may we all be joyful in God our Savior - no matter what!
Merry Christmas!
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