Ep 088: Getting Intentional with Holiday Traditions
The Purpose Show
Allie Casazza
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This time of year it sometimes feels like we've got things kind of backwards. We care so much about creating a special holiday and not missing out (you know, we all have FOMO) that we go way too far and end up trying to create such a special atmosphere, that it's very not special. We go out of our way with our traditions, we stretch our schedules and budgets thinner than we are comfortable with just to make Christmas super special. It ends up ruining the special occasion we tried tirelessly to create! It's like our traditions have become really overbearing. They start to feel really heavy and they're not fun anymore. We have stopped looking forward to them. Traditions should not detract from the season. They should elevate it. So, let's put our traditions under the light of intentionality and get back to what serves us and our families best in this season.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Air Wave Media Podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | Hutchinson, Minnesota had some problems. |
| 0:07.4 | For the adults of Hutchinson, the problem was the teenagers. |
| 0:10.1 | They kept sneaking off at night to empty barns where they'd brace yourself, dance. |
| 0:14.3 | Who knew what sort of sin and heavy petting and French literature these barn dances might |
| 0:18.0 | lead to? |
| 0:19.0 | No, the adults of Hutchinson, Minnesota, did not approve. |
| 0:22.4 | And neither it seemed did the devil. |
| 0:25.0 | Once summer nights, Satan himself suddenly appeared in the middle of the dance floor, and |
| 0:28.7 | the debauched teens ran in fear. |
| 0:31.0 | He showed up at the next dance, too. |
| 0:32.8 | For a few months, it seemed like you couldn't go to a late-night barn dance in Hutchinson, |
| 0:36.7 | without getting chased out by the devil, pitchfork and toe. |
| 0:40.1 | Until one night, when a 14-year-old boy had the good sense to shoot him in the chest. |
| 0:44.2 | At which point the devil was revealed Scooby-Doo style but bloodier to be the local Methodist |
| 0:48.3 | minister, dressed in a costume, and flown in from the roof by rope and pulley. |
| 0:53.2 | This is the constant, a history of getting things wrong. |
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| 1:18.9 | We're surrounded with the message that it's the tired life, the no-time for myself life, |
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