Hello and welcome to the She Reads Truth podcast. She reads Truth creates beautiful, accessible Bible reading plans and resources to help you get into God's Word every day. Each week here on the podcast, we talk about what we're going to read together as a community this week. I'm your host, Rachel Myers. And I'm your other host, Amanda Bible Williams and friends. This is week five of our

very special 2025 Advent series, Tidings of Comfort and Joy. And it's Christmas Tide, Rachel.

It's Christmas tied officially. That's right. It's the fifth day of Christmas. That's right. If you

want to leave your tree up, you have at least another seven days.

You have until, what is it, January 6th?

Math.

Yeah.

I think January 6th is 12th night and then the 7th is Epiphany or the 5th and the 6th.

We can Google that.

I'm just going to be honest.

I almost never take my tree down before then.

But it's not because I'm observing Christmas tide.

It will be this year.

Okay, okay.

It's not that I was aware that I was observing.

Oh, that's funny.

I was observing Christmas tide.

It's that it's just, it's hard to take it down both logistically and emotionally. It's like, but then it's a nice fresh start for the new year. This is the delightful difference between you and me? You probably, is yours down on like the 26th? It's down before New Year's for sure. Yeah. I like it up on New Year's. You know what? We've certainly most years probably had it up on New Year's, but the last couple of years, yeah. Actually, and we're also the family that like doesn't put the tree up until after Thanksgiving. Yeah, that's such a short time. Now, I do, the last couple of years, I'll do a dry run where like the week before, or like the weekend before Thanksgiving, I'll put all of the garland in place, get it all hung, get all the hooks in place, and then take it all back down.

That's so much work.

No, it's a dry run.

And so, no, it truly, like, we have to do it that way because, and like, and it's because, like, you know how, like, on inauguration day, like, at the White House, like, where, like, you have how like on inauguration day, like at the White House, like, where like you have like a certain number of hours to like turn it over from one administration to the other?

Okay.

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