When you really think long and hard, there is no more joyful day in a Christian’s life than Christmas day – the day our Savior was born. That day is tomorrow. Wow!
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Tag: Traditions
Mid Life Celebration Is When…
What are the joyous moments in your day to day routine?
Do you have them?
Are you conscious of them as they happen?
Are you willing to work for them?
Is it worth the effort?
Do you have any idea what I’m talking about?
Every Monday for the past four years after school, on the way home, our son (9) and I stop at Twistee Treat for ice cream.
But before we get in the car at the school parking lot, we do our daily bear hug.
Mid Life Celebration is when…
Winter and The First Robin
Winter. Winter Solstice. First day of Winter.
It’s obviously winter in the northern states, with the freezing temperatures and all the snow.
But in Central Florida and at the Walt Disney World Resort, it’s difficult to tell when winter arrives, if in fact it ever does.
So today, as we mark the official calendar day that winter starts, I am still listening for the first sign that winter has arrived.
The morning we hear the first Robin Red Breast chipping, we are quietly full of Joy. That’s when winter officially starts for us.
Food For Families
Central Florida volunteers gather at a local High School every Thanksgiving Day morning to pick up and deliver boxes of food to needy Families.
Tomorrow will be our tenth year of this Thanksgiving Day family tradition.
A decade ago, and even before Cheryl was pregnant, I suggested to her that we find a way to show our children that we are here to serve and not to be served.
This is a simple, and seemingly insignificant act of kindness influences our thinking, and our actions, all year long.
A Publix Grocery Store Produce manager started Food For Families many years ago. With help from Central Florida Churches, Schools, and community members, needy Families are identified.
The Central Florida Community also delivers Food for Families on Christmas morning and Easter morning, providing us opportunities to put others first on three special days where we traditionally didn’t.
Thanksgiving Tradition Cancelled?
“Dad, would you cancel Thanksgiving?”, my son responded brilliantly to my serious-sounding question.
I had just antagonistically asked him, “We don’t need to go to Twistee Treat today. I mean, we can skip one Monday. It’s no big deal, right? What’s one Monday?”
Five years ago, I spontaneously suggested to our son, as we were leaving his school, that we stop by Twistee Treat on the way home. “Let’s get some ice cream and celebrate a great week and kick off a great weekend ahead.”
What child turns down ice cream, right? The very next Friday, as we where leaving his school, he asked, “Are we getting ice cream?” We all know how this turned out.
Every Friday, for more than a year, was Twistee Treat day.
Until one casual Monday, when I said, “Why don’t we go to Twistee Treat and celebrate the great weekend we just had and kick off the week ahead?”
So here we are, five years later. Do you think he’ll have trouble recalling ice cream with his Dad? I mean, for as long as he lives?