136: Why We Are Celebrating Christmas For The First Time
Now That We're A Family
Elisha and Katie Voetberg
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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It is an odd thing to celebrate Christmas for our family because we have never done it! The incarnation of our King is at the center and the gospel is magnified in our home in this season in light of it. Join us, as we discuss why we haven't celebrated and why we are choosing to this year. - Top 5 Tuesday Join our weekly email list to keep up to date with the highlights of what is going on in our family life. (scroll to the bottom) https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com/site/about - Looking for more Now That We're A Family resources? We got 'em! Website: https://www.nowthatwereafamily.com - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nowthatwereafamily/ - OUR FAMILY MUSIC ACADEMY: https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com - Is your life just too complicated to ever feel peaceful? Check out Katie's: https://getitalldoneclub.com
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so today we are going to talk about why we are celebrating Christmas this year. |
| 0:04.6 | This is the first time I have ever celebrated Christmas and the first time that we have |
| 0:10.0 | celebrated Christmas as a couple and as a family. So this is new to us back in the episodes, |
| 0:16.6 | well last year, around episode 90. We talked about why we hadn't celebrated Christmas up until |
| 0:22.9 | this point and today we're going to touch on some of that. We're going to talk about why we haven't |
| 0:26.6 | celebrated Christmas in the past, why we're celebrating Christmas this year, and also some |
| 0:30.8 | encouragement if you are spouse doesn't share the same belief with you when it comes to Christmas. |
| 0:36.0 | Maybe they are concerned about the pagan tradition and you love the positive associations with |
| 0:41.8 | tradition that you have or something like that. There can be a lot of conflict around this holiday. |
| 0:46.0 | So we're just going to share where we are at and honestly I feel like we kind of had to explain |
| 0:51.8 | ourselves because you guys are going to see we have a Christmas tree on Instagram. Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:56.6 | So I hope you guys enjoy this episode. |
| 1:04.0 | The now that we're a family podcast. Here we are once again Katie, a year later, |
| 1:10.2 | but with a different perspective on Christmas. What do you know? What's funny is that I changed my |
| 1:16.7 | perspective last year over a lot of the discussion or my perspective started to shift I should say |
| 1:23.9 | after a lot of the discussion that came from our podcast last year. Interesting. |
| 1:28.8 | And I do think we did retain, it retained the right to change our minds or to do things differently. |
| 1:34.8 | Reserved the right or retained it. Yeah, yeah. We reserved the right to do things differently |
| 1:38.4 | in the future. And I feel like that's where we're at right now where obviously election I don't |
| 1:44.5 | have a ton of tradition. We have no tradition around this holiday when it comes to you and I. |
| 1:48.3 | Yeah, our own family. That's a good point. Yeah, so we don't know if this is going to be something |
| 1:52.2 | that is a long term thing or maybe it's a special time for us this year and we make some good memories |
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