Good morning, ladies!
We are swirling over here at LPM getting ready to close down for a few days over Christmas, but, I didn’t want another day to pass before I had us discussing all things traditions.
We’ve covered Christmas parties, affordable Christmas gifts, so it only seems appropriate to share our traditions with each other.
Hear me loud and clear, if you and your family don’t have many traditions or maybe you just aren’t too fond of them, no guilt whatsoever. Saturday morning I went to a Christmas brunch with some ladies from my community group and they all went around and shared some of their favorite traditions. Hearing their traditions was neat and got me thinking for what I might want to do with my own family one day. We can all learn from each other!
I did end up sharing a few things that I would losely label as traditions in our home, but I guess if you do the same thing every year, whether big or small, it’s still a tradition.
For one, my parents have served on our worship team at my church since I was a little girl. That means that the minute the doors opened at church, we were there. With that said, I can tell you the number of times we’ve missed the Christmas Eve service at church on one hand. The only reason we missed a Christmas Eve service was if we landed in Colorado that particular year to visit our family.
Secondly, and this makes our family really weird, but we open gifts s-l-o-w and l-a-t-e. It was torture when we were youngins, but as we’ve gotten older, it would be weird for us to open our gifts before two o’ clock in the afternoon. One year we went the entire day, ate our Christmas meal, visited our dear friends, then came home and opened our gifts that night. That was a one time deal, but it’s how we roll. We also open up our gifts one by one.
And that, my friends, is the extent of our family Christmas traditions.
I’m sure my mom will read this entry then proceed to call and tell me all the things we do that I left out, but for the life of me, I can’t think of one tradition we have.
Let’s hear from you, ladies. I have no doubt these are going to be some fun comments to read!
Hi Lindsee! One of our family traditions has been to bake cookies called sandtarts. It’s a very old recipe and the cookies are paper thin. The goal and challenge is to roll them out thin enough without tearing. When done right, they give you that “melt in your mouth” expeience! Now all of us daughters, nieces, and granddaughters bake them, and then we call each other every Christmas to discuss our baking tips and tricks to make them perfect. It’s just not Christmas without sandtarts!
This is my third Christmas w/ my two adopted sons. We’ve been doing a tradition where we get new pajamas on Christmas eve. They love picking out PJs for me (my mom takes them). Every year I have said, “Mother! Why did you let them pick that hideous nightgown out for me!” She just laughs. And I ALWAYS wear it to bed on Christmas eve and the next morning while they’re opening their presents. You will see me in those Christmas morning pictures rocking my nightgown that my precious boys picked out just for me. 🙂
As little kids, we would pick our spot where Santa left our gifts in the living room. Christmas morning we lined up in the hallway and my dad opened the door to the living room where the treasures were. After all the screaming and crying and thanking Santa, my mom went to the kitchen and made the most delicious pecan waffles. She only made them on Christmas morning. How I wish for one more Christmas with my parents. Precious memories.
i’m picturing her making them in heaven for you! 🙂
That really is precious! Thanks for sharing!
For Christmas Eve we went to church then came home and our dinner was what another country would have for Christmas dinner and we would learn about that country’s traditions. We always opened a present from Grandma and then call her.
wow! love this! your mom must be a fabulous cook! the closest i could get would be take out tacos! lol!
On Christmas morning we start with fresh hot cinnamon rolls and open our stocking gifts. Next, we gather around the Christmas tree and we all take part in reading the Christmas Story along with singing a few verses from each Christmas carole that coincides with the story. When it is time for baby Jesus to be born we have the youngest child put him in the manger..Lastly we open gifts…
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!
One of my favorite family traditions is we play a made up game of “12 Days of Christmas” every year my Dad picks out a Collectable Snowbaby that has a penguin for me (I collect penguins) Starting December 13 (12 days before Christmas) I get a clue about what it looks like. The point is, the clues make no sense even if pieced together. But they do make sense once you see the Snowbaby Figurine. For example several years ago one clue was “wet or dry” The figurine was a penguin & Snowbaby with painted toes. (Polish starts wet then is dry) I’m a grown woman & love the goofy clues. We get a really good laugh every night.
1. New underwear and socks all around. This wasn’t so bad when there were four of us Mom, Dad, two sons. Now there are 14! Nana, Grandpa, two sons, two daughter-in-laws, eight grandkids! But oh-what fun. (Oh, there is one exception: I do not give underwear to my daughter-in-laws!! I’m not going there – ha!)
2. Go Fish! Each year someone gets the Go Fish cards. That just means that the person who gets the cards has to find his/her present which has been hidden but it usually means that the present is extra special. This year it will be for Grandpa – shhhhhh! he doesn’t know it yet :).
We’ve always read Luke 2 on Christmas Eve since the year we got married. We also go to the candelight Christmas Eve service and buy a family ornament as well as one for each kid every year. This year we’ve been watching as many christmas movies as we can & I hope to continue that every year.
Have a Merry Christmas!!
Ha! We are slow present openers too. Usually at about 10 to 11ish we all show up in the living room just chilling out and then my dad reads the Christmas story out of Luke and we start one by one opening presents…youngest goes first. Then we have a big meal afterward and each of us gets a Cornish hen stuffed with my mom’s rice. Also growing up on Christmas Eve we would get stockings after Christmas Eve Service and each year my mom would get us an ornament that represented that year for us. Then when we got married she gave us all our ornaments to start our own Christmas Tree. The year after I got married I was secretly bummed I didn’t get a stocking anymore =).
I love traditions of all kinds! We have many throughout the year. Our Christmas traditions begin the weekend of Thanksgiving when we put our Christmas tree up and hang our stockings by the fireplace.
We read a story by Arnold Ytreeide (this year it is Jotham’s Journey) each night during advent and the kids each eat piece of chocolate from their advent calendars. If you have children and you are not familiar with these stories you should check them out!
Our kids choose two names (a boy & a girl) off the Angel Tree at church and we go shopping as a family to buy them Christmas presents. I love to watch my kids as they carefully choose gifts that they think the children would enjoy receiving.
A few days prior to Christmas we gather in the kitchen as a family to make and decorate cut-out cookies. The kids carefully select a few to place on the tray by the fireplace for Santa along with a bologna sandwich and some carrots for the reindeer.
Our kids get to open two presents each year on Christmas Eve after we attend our Christmas Eve service and have dinner. One is found in their stockings and is an ornament that represents something from the past year. They find the other gift under the tree and it is always a new pair of pajamas to put on and wear on Christmas morning. We open presents early in the morning…one at a time. After we’ve all opened the gifts we’ve gotten for each other the kids find a clue hidden somewhere in the Christmas tree that begins their scavenger hunt for the one present that Santa brought for them and hid somewhere in the house.
We spend the rest of the day visiting extended family. My folks and my hubby’s folks live in the same town as us so we visit with and exchange gifts with both sides at some point during the day.
I love traditions and I can tell my kids do as well. We almost had a mutiny on our hands when I tried to move where we put our tree up every year. Traditions create memories, build family unity and a shared family identity, and they create a sense of security and belonging. If you don’t have any Christmas traditions I encourage you to start some this year!
The gift of our Savior is a precious reminder that we are loved. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas touched with wonder and filled with His love!
Hi everyone,
I just have two Christmas traditions:
I purchase 4-5 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes to send around the world in early November.
Singing “Silent Night” by candlelight at the Christmas Eve service.
Merry Christmas, everyone! God bless you all.
We definitely go to a Christmas Eve service. During the summer we purchase an ornament from our family trip and the children each get an ornament for the tree. We are a blended family and so my stepchildren can wake up on Christmas morning with their mom we have our own Christmas eve on the 23rd with dinner, family, one present and wake up on the 24th with presents, HUGE breakfast and make cookies for a children’s home. Then we just have 3 kids for the 24th who get to go around to neighbors and deliver cookies.
Most importantly, we let our kids know that if Christ is in our hearts every day, one day is not nearly enough to celebrate Him coming into this world.
Merry Christmas Siesta community!
Family tradition of having waffles & ice cream, strawberries & whipped cream for breakfast on Christmas morning.
I started a tradition a few years ago of having friends over Christmas Eve after church for dinner and we all are dressed in our pajamas. Has been lots of fun!
God Bless all you Siestas and Merry Christmas!
We are blessed that all of our family lives nearby so a few days before Christmas, we have a progressive dinner eating a different course at each family’s house. Then, we open gifts from that family at their house. It makes the gift giving last longer and we can see everyone’s expression when they open their package. And we get to see everyone’s Christmas decorations.
When I was growing up, Christmas Eve was a big deal! We ate a supper of sandwiches, Lil Smokys in bbq sauce, cheese cubes – finger food stuff. We children would eat soo fast so we could get to the present opening. My Dad and Grampa would eat SO slow. Driving us crazy! We learned quickly the more we bugged them and begged them to eat fast, the slower they would go!
Santa came to our house and handed our presents to us (he was my Grampa) and we always had a fire in the fireplace to throw the wrapping paper in.
Christmas Day was a big meal at Grampa & Gramma’s.
I miss them this year! They are celebrating in Heaven. Best party ever for them, I’m sure
I want to go back and be 13 again…
I forgot to say that the Christmas Eve tradition is from my Mom. My Dad’s family did Christmas on the 25th. So did my husband – til he married me LOL
Our family always spends Christmas Eve together. We attend a Christmas Eve service and then gather with family to open gifts and share in all of the Christmas baking that we have done beforehand. Before opening the presents, our oldest family member reads the account of Christ’s birth from Luke Chapter 2. We have all the little children in our family sit right up close to hear the story and then we sing a Christmas Carol or 2 or 3…. and then we open our gifts (one by one).
Another tradition is homemade cinnamon rolls in the oven every Christmas morning!!!!!!
I Love Christmas!The spirit of Christmas! We gather together on Christmas Eve. I have 2 daughters and 5 grandchildren and we always open presents one by one also starting with the youngest. And, I have always bought my daughters their Christmas pajamas and I still do even though they are 30 and 33, it is something that helps me feel like they are still little!!
1. Always pick 1 gift to open on Christmas Eve after coming home from church service.
2. Always read the Christmas Story from Luke before Christmas dinner, a different family member reading it from year to year. It was extra special when a new son-in-law participated for the first time a few years back!
Soon the first granddaughter will particpate (she’s 4)!!
I always get our kids new jammies that they open Christmas Eve before they head to bed, so they have something cute to wear when they get up in the morning when there will be lots of picture taking done :).
Another thing we did this year, that will end up being a tradition, is that we put them to bed the other night a little earlier than normal (with some mild protesting involved), then about 20 minutes later, we woke them back up, had the car warmed up, big fuzzy blankets to snuggle up in, gingerbread cookies, big individual thermoses of hot chocolate, and my husband took us out to look at all the Christmas lights in our jammies…they LOVED it! (and they are 13 and 11-we did too) 🙂
MERRY CHRISTMAS, everyone!!!!
Our traditions include: the Christmas eve-EVE gift…My hubby and I get to open a gift on the 23rd (this started as a tradition when I was a kid and has continued into adulthood, hopefully to then do with my kids one day). On Christmas Eve we all open just 1 little gift and we have my grandparents over for Clam Chowder. Always my mom’s homemade Clam Chowder! And, Christmas morning is brunch at my parents with the bulk of gift giving. We all go a little crazy with gifts—even if they’re small. My mom and I love to have people have lots to rip through and open!
When my kids were born, I started a tradition of giving them an ornament every year that represented something very significant in their lives that year. Things like learning to ride a bike, taking a first train ride, a special pet and etc.
Last year my 19 yr. old son got a “dolled up” spark plug! He had learned how to work on his car that year! A big deal!
When my children get married, I take all of their ornaments and wrap them up and put them on the present table at their weddings. That way, they will have sentimental ornaments on THEIR first Christmas trees.
Elise, That is such a fun tradition! I may have to copy that one!!
When my kids were younger (think preschool) I had a cloth, kid-friendly Nativity set. We would set up the stable by the Christmas tree then we took the finger puppets of Joseph and Mary (she didn’t appear to be pregnant, because, you know – it’s hard to have a pregnant finger puppet; but I digress) and they would start making their way to “Bethlehem” (the stable) in a corner of the house as far away from the tree as possible. Each day the kids and I would move Joseph and Mary just a wee bit closer to the stable until finally, on Christmas Eve, they would arrive just in time for finger puppet Jesus to be in His manger come Christmas morning. My kids LOVED this. They would check on Joseph and Mary a thousand times a day as they made their slow trek to the manger.
Since I was a little girl my parents have given me a dated Christmas ornament each year. When I left the house as a young woman, my mom boxed my ornaments up and gave them to me with a special letter. There are SO many memories in that box! My parents continue to give me an ornament every year and I began this tradition with my two boys when they were born. Each year’s ornament is chosen for a reason and has something to do with what has gone on in their lives that year whether it be a new interest they have, from a special family vacation, etc. Many times I write on the ornament box why that ornament was chosen. They LOVE to get their boxes out each year when we are decorating the tree and read what I wrote about each year and relive the memories of the ornament!
Merry Christmas Siestas!!
Every Christmas Eve the two granddaughters that live close to us will com and we bake sugar cookies. Have been doing this since they could reach the table. They are now 21 & 23 and still want to do cookies. We also open one gift on Christmas Eve. As a child growing up my Dad would always read the Christmas story from the bible and then we would sing carols. We still try to do that in our home. Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!
One of our Christmas traditions occurs on our anniversary every year, December 9th. My husband always gets me a dated ornament. I love putting them on the tree, such a trip,down memory lane.
Then, we always go to Christmas Eve service, come back home for our big meal, and then open all of our gifts, all on the Eve. This was the tradition in my husband’s family and we followed suit.
My children now have families of their own and I think that it is important that children be allowed to stay at home and play with the gifts that they recieve. Because of that I have breakfast on Christmas Eve morning and after be have a “Breakfast Buffet” we then open gifts and sometime before noon they are on their way to other families or to their homes. This seems to keep overlapping commitments and we have a meal that is totally different from the traditional Christmas dinner.
We go to the early Christmas Eve service at church as a family. Then on Christmas morning I cook a big breakfast. I’ve been cooking the same thing for 40 years. Scrambled eggs, ham, orange and apple slices, sausage gravy and lots of biscuits. My kids are grown with families of their own, but they all show up for breakfast. Afterwards my husband reads the Christmas story from the Bible, we pray and thank God for the gift of His Son. Then we start opening presents, one at a time. With 10 adults and 5 grandchildren it takes a very looonnnnnggggg time!
Christmas blessings to all of you Siestas!
i love that they all still come to breakfast! how special!!
Oh! Traditions do the heart some good. I just LOVE them and we do a lot around here. So many of them you ladies have written about. We too attend Christmas Eve service, do ornaments for each of the kids, open cute Christmas pj’s on Christmas Eve, have a yummy Christmas morning breakfast,and spend lots of time with family.
One of my favorites though is our 24 Books of Advent. I have collected 24 Christmas books. Many of them are about Jesus, but then we also just have some fun ones in there as well. I wrap each book up on Nov. 30th and put them in a basket under our tree. Each night during December the kids pick a book and we read it before bed. I love that it’s the same 24 books each year, but it’s exciting b/c you don’t know which one you will open when!
We also have a Christmas Tree Campout. On December 23rd we pull our air mattresses and sleeping bags downstairs in front of the Christmas tree. We order pizza, curl up in our pj’s and watch Christmas movies until we fall asleep under the twinkling lights. My son loves, loves, loves this every year.
Our son is an early riser…hoping our daughter will take after me. Anyway, we like to determine when Christmas morning starts. My son knows to stay in his room until he hears “Joy to the World” played on the guitar. Once the kids hear the song they come curl up in the bed with us. We read the Christmas Story from Luke and pray before going downstairs to open presents.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!!
Hey Lindsee, how fun is this? When my kids were little we would go to the mountains in California and spend a week there to celebrate Christmas. However we are all In OK now and my kids have kids so we have new traditions. We go to a town 30 minutes away to see the massive light display they have and then have a tailgate party in the parking lot with homemade goodies and hot chocolate. The kids love it. On Christmas Eve we eat the same meal every year, then we read the Christmas story, and ’twas the night before Christmas and then open one present. We also try to open gifts one at a time so that everyone can enjoy seeing what others got.
Merry Christmas to you all. See you at the dome!
Being “good” scandinavians we celebrate Christms on Christmas Eve. However the favorite tradition is getting up early Christmas morning and goiong to the little Swedish church down the road and celebrating “julotta” at 6 in the morning. After the service we have coffee and Scandinavian breads and cookies and visit with all our neighbors and friends. I am old now but have been doing this since I was a child. Merry Christmas to all of you–or God Jul.
When I was young, Santa brought our tree after we had gone to bed. When we got up on Christmas morning the doors to the livingroom were closed and we had to eat breakfast before we could go and see the tree and the presents. It built up the excitment. Merry Christmas everyone.
Christmas Eve at my Italian grandparents’ house was always obligatory, although my grandmother has disbanded it since Nonno died. She would make homemade ravioli and biscotti, both of which were only served on that occasion. That was usually a late lunch meal. For supper for the children, she would make “reindeer sandwiches”: PBJ or whatever we wanted for filling with crusts cut off and cut into fourths the triangular way; maraschino cherry for the nose, raisins for the eyes, and broken pretzel twists for antlers. I’m 40 now, but my husband and I still make these if we’re alone on Christmas Eve.
We also always get pjs for Christmas, just like so many previous commenters.
My husband and I go to midnight mass and then we go out to dinner on Christmas day.
I was speaking to a gentleman from Puerto Rico today and he said that he always celebrated on January 6th by putting a box of grass under his bed for the camels (the three wise men) and when he woke up the next morning his presents were under the bed. I found it interesting the difference in the cultures. Have a Merry Christmas!
Since I didn’t have any as a kid I started tons for my own kids – almost too many lol. But my favorite as they are adults is the green pickle. Santa hangs a green pickle ornament on the tree after they go to bed. The one that finds it Christmas morning gets what ever is attached, sometimes cash or a gift card. It is hilarious how competitive this still is for all my boys as adults. It makes me smile all year to remember them all laying under the tree trying to get a glimpse and be the one to get the pickle prize.
On New Year’s Eve my family has an extensive seafood dinner with sparkling grape juice.
What fun to read all of your Siesta traditions! We put up our tree Thanksgiving weekend and load it with special ornaments my mom has given my daughter each year (she’s 14). All the familiar decorations come out of their boxes and the Christmas china inhabits the hutch. Our nativity figurines have center stage on the coffee table. I make cookies to take to the neighbors and friends. On Christmas Eve, we go to service and then home for lasagna (waiting in the crockpot – yum!), and my daughter may choose one gift to open. Christmas morning, my husband crafts a treasure hunt that takes our girl all over the house, searching for cool clues to the one special gift. (We are so pleased she hasn’t outgrown this yet.)This year we will visit my family, a thousand miles away, for New Years. God Bless you all, Siestas!
oh, I forgot to say, we have to have homemade monkey bread with Christmas dinner. Each of my siblings has it in their homes, too!
We are trying to create memories with our 4 children. One year for something special I decided to hide their gift and give the 2 that were old enough to read clues to find their gift. The younger two had to find their gift hidden in one room. They absolutely loved this idea, so we would make the clues more challenging and have them cover lots or area…run them upstairs, downstairs, to the basement, upstairs again, to the garage. This year the 2 oldest will run inside and then outside a few times with clues. Oh the anticipation as they read their clues or hunt for a hidden gift!!! Thus the start of a continued tradition. Just keeps me stepping with creative clues for their own individual treasure hunt every year!!!! Also, every Christmas Eve we enjoy driving around and looking at Christmas lights.
We have started taking our kids each year to pick out an ornament at a special ornament store. They write the year, the child’s name and their age on the ornament. The kids LOVE getting out their special ornaments and talking about them each year. Our hope is that when they grow up and have their own families that we can give them their ornaments as a wedding gift with a book containing a picture of them each year with their ornament. Very sentimental and special!
We always open Christmas presents in the morning and then I like to make our family a nice lunch before heading to grandparents houses.
Christmas is a special time!
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Ruth from KS 🙂
Our Christmas “traditions” have evolved through the years, as my chidren are adults with children. We usually have a brunch on Christmas Day which allows the children time to open gifts at home, and also time after the brunch to go visit the other side of the family. For the last two years I have had the grandchildren choose a project from the Compassion International catalog and I make the donation. And frankly, when we open gifts, it is not slow and one at a time, although we do ooh and ah and thank each other for the gifts.
Traditions for me and my family are Christmas tunes playing, fires roaring, Christmas cookies baking, coffee drinking, one present opening on Christmas Eve and pj wearing for a looooong time:) LOVE IT!
We ALWAYS have a big paper fight after the presents are unwrapped! The kids, who now have kids of their own, always grabbed the paper after a gift was unwrapped to have ammunition for the big paper fight to follow the opening of the last gift. Great fun–great memories.
Upon marrying my darling of 23yrs, I acquired some of his family’s traditions. My favorite is that we have a Christmas Eve waffle dinner together. As the kids have grown we’ve had to amend it to Eve Eve and finally (as it will be tonight), Eveeveeve 🙂 I believe it began as my mother-in-law’s trick to get the kids to eat when all that was on their minds were gifts. We’re having it at our home this year, so I’m off to pull out china and waffle irons. Interesting mix, don’t you think?
Afterwards, we’ll play “dirty santa”. Don’t worry, it’s good clean fun, despite the name 🙂 Our goal is to have the funniest/quirkiest gift. My camo-snuggie won hands down last year. This year I’m hoping my Duck Dynasty t-shirt will be a hit. It’s shows Uncle Si with the caption, “Hey Jack, it’s on like Donky Kong!” :0
Wishing you a “Happy, Happy, Happy” Christmas!
Our family participates in many traditions during the holidays, the two I will share with you are:
The Jesus Stocking: we write down the gifts that Christ has already given us through the year, that we are especially grateful for.And then read them before we open any wrapped gifts. This is how I found out about my daughter expecting my grandson!
The next is “The Dollar Loud” exchange. We each locate the most hideous or outlandish gift we can through the year, for a dollar or under, and put it in the wrap it, and then White Elephant it.. Many Many laughs with this one!
Merry Christmas to you all!
Hello. I come from a large family, including brothers/sisters-in-law, we have a wide variety of ethnicity amongst us. So on Christmas, everyone brings a side dish that represents their ethnic background that was or is served at Christmas in their family. We have Spanish, Mexican, Native American, Irish, German, Polish, & Dutch…so our Christmas dinner is very eclectic n fun to eat. :o)
Hey Lindsee,
I’m starting to have traditions of my own now that I’m married and have one little one who is starting to understand all things Christmas. My little girl is all about the lights, so I’m thinking we will have a tradition of driving around and looking at Christmas lights. We even took her to Dollywood this weekend because I heard that they use some 4 million lights to decorate the park each Christmas season. We have had the tradition of three different family parties each year since marriage, and we are still thinking about what else we would like to add to our own little family’s traditions…a very Merry Christmas to you Lindsee!:)
Each year we buy the glass bottle commemorative Cokes. Before we open gifts on Christmas morning, we pop the top on our Cokes and read the Christmas story from Luke. I save the cases and sit them around the house to decorate for future years. The kids would absolutely revolt if we didn’t do this first! 🙂
Merry Christmas to all my Siesta friends!
Sorry this comment is so late.
in South Africa, our Christmas is basically midsummmer, and our school year ends in early December.
so as soon as schools have shut down, we put up the tree (not real tree) and drive around the neighbourhood that night to see other people’s lights and decorations.
it is way too hot to be baking cookies most of the time, but if there’s a cool day, we get a few batches baked.
my 3 sisters and their families would get together on the Christmas eve (until fireworks became a problem with some of our pets) and then Christmas day would be for their inlaws….but for the past few years we changed our celebration to Christmas day, when we each bring salads, cold meats and dessert (ice cream) and swap presents. we did try to do different themes/styles each year for a while, but soon learnt that the heat dictates the cold meat and salad theme with minimal effort and stress. lots of sunblock and splashing in a pool…..then home to protect our pets from the terrifying big bangs even though fireworks are banned. (or thunderstorms )
Well my comment is really late! We have bunches of traditions in our family (and just added one more new one this year!), but I wanted to share my favorite. Every year, the same gift bag is under the tree, with the same tag on it. The tag says “THIS is the first gift of Christmas, and it is for EVERYONE.” Inside is a Nativity music box that plays Silent Night. It’s a quiet reminder of the reason for the season before the gift opening begins.
Karen, Lynnwood, WA
“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23 (NIV)
I put this verse in the wrong spot. You don’t need to moderate it here. Sorry!!
Shannan, Elk City, OK: “But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the LORD God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.” Psalms 73:28 ESV