The holiday season from Thanksgiving through Christmas evokes in most people a

cheery and joy-filled picture reminiscent of a courier and ives painting or

the beauty of a Budweiser commercial. We gather together with family and with

friends in the hopes of joyfully and peacefully celebrating the feast. The

reality is that holiday time is often difficult and sometimes even painful

for many people. Our personality rises to the floor and we behave in ways that

we wish we could change. Welcome everyone to the anygram journey podcast, the

holiday edition. I love giving the Reverend a little bit of hard time about that

intro. That is the introduction from the... what I guess is like I don't know the

2012 2011 version of anygram in holidays with Suzanne Stabil. There's a more

updated version that you'll get here a part of in today's episode. What makes

today's episode a little bit more special is you're gonna hear several voices.

I took a couple of microphones to the Stabil family Thanksgiving get

together and I set them out and a few of the family members chimed in about the

holidays including some from the little kids which I love to hear and that we

kind of have that permanently available now. I can see Josephine asking here

more than once and upcoming days. So you'll hear from different family members

and then Joan Suzanne are gonna talk about how the holidays have changed for

them over the seasons and then the second half of the podcast is the first part

of Suzanne's anygram and the holidays teaching. It was streamed live online in

2019 after a group of people joined together and watched the family stone

here at the Micah Center and a cool thing about that night I didn't expect

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