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I am going to take a brief break from reading Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life.  My friend Kelly had suggested we take some time (in a ladies meeting) to discuss how the families in our care group were celebrating the upcoming holidays.  More specifically, what traditions they had or wanted to establish within their families.  What a great idea!  We all are families with young children, eager to establish meaningful traditions to share the good news of the gospel with our children, reminding them always of God's kindness towards us.  

I had briefly thought about this last year, but felt William was too young to really pick anything up.  But this year, he has really been soaking up so many things, and I think we can begin to try to start our own family traditions.  In light of that, I decided to read Noel Piper's book called Treasuring God in our Traditions.  It came highly recommended from the Girltalk blog last year.  Hopefully, it'll give Bill and I some ideas to see what traditions we can start to implement to share about God and the gospel with William.

Here's a great quote I got from the first chapter about heirlooms:

Now although we cannot bequeath God to our children, we can help them know him and understand him in ways that prepare them to believe in his name.  "Everyday" and "especially" traditions in a family are an important part of that teaching, of picturing who God is and what he's done in our home and in the world.  Traditions are a vital way of displaying our greatest treasure, of showing what - Who - is most important to us (p. 18).

I am excited to get started on this book!