{"id":2049,"date":"2009-12-28T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2009-12-29T00:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T05:00:57","slug":"traditions-december-28-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/traditions-december-28-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditions, December 28 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Dad Reading from the Bible Christmas Eve<\/p><\/div>\n

My Dad’s birthday is on Christmas Eve.\u00a0 So all my life on Christmas Eve we have had a birthday dinner including birthday cake celebrating my Dad’s birthday.\u00a0 After his birthday gifts were opened we would transition to the living room for Christmas.\u00a0For the past 30 years my Dad has read a gospel of the nativity from the Bible to my family then someone would place baby Jesus in the nativity scene you see on the table next to my Dad.\u00a0 Now that he has grandchildren the tradition has continued.\u00a0 They sit and listen to the gospel reading about the birth of Christ all focused on Grandpa’s voice.\u00a0 It is precious to witness my children be a part of the traditions I was raised with as a child.<\/p>\n

I asked my parents this past Christmas if their parents read from the Bible Christmas eve, not something Catholics usually did.\u00a0 Both said no, they started the tradition to transition from Dad’s birthday to the birthday of Jesus.\u00a0 As a child I loved hearing that story about Mary and Joseph, their journey and there being no room for them in the inn.\u00a0 I always thought, don’t they know that it is God they are turning away from their inn?\u00a0 I embrace all the traditions from childhood and have created new traditions for my children.<\/p>\n

Traditions are ways for us to remember and preserve our family’s beliefs or gatherings.\u00a0 What traditions do you have for Christmas Eve?\u00a0 Don’t you just love that you can depend on them?\u00a0 Traditions help to give us that place that we know we will be in the future because we have felt so secure there in the past.\u00a0 There is a lot to be said for spontaneity but there is so much we can learn from traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What traditions do you celebrate each year at Christmas time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[172,413,418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}