Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast and we've got a thing as a family that we do for all the holidays.

Like a little rhythm, a little deal like not all the holidays, but all the big ones, Christmas,

Thanksgiving, and Easter, there's stuff that we eat. There are things that we do that are unique and private to our family, but then there are also things that we do. They're pretty much in keeping with what everybody in our neck of the

woods does you just got these rhythms and you know the rhythms of the holiday and

it might be difficult looking back on that from thousands of years in the

future to understand what we're

talking about if we were just casually communicating about it because I don't know a holiday

isn't just a neat tidy like one-day thing Christmas is kind of like like it's a whole weekend it's a

whole season it's a whole event it's not one meal it's not one opening gifts it's not

one church service it's pretty grand. And in the midst of the holiday seasons and all the buffer days

that come and go on either side and all the rhythms of all of that, you've also got certain preparations that have to happen.

And maybe you're the kind of person who's a part of that.

Maybe you're the kind of person who sits back

and other people in your family kind of make that stuff go.

But I mean, there's a reasonable amount of fretting in any

family that takes holidays seriously I suppose I mean you got to get the right kind of

food for the right kind of thing you have certain decorations that you put out

you have certain things that you think about you have certain ways that you show appreciation and

care to other people in your lives that you got to do if church is part of rhythm of all that you got to figure out how it

fits and how the travel works and where everybody's going to stay and how you're going to

get through the difficult relational things from the last time you all got together and who's going to be the

person who provides the social buffering. We all completely get this about our

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