The heart of every family tradition is a meaningful experience.
'How do we keep our balance? Tradition.' So says Tevye in the musical Fiddler on the Roof .
At Christmas my family has a number of traditions from baking the Christmas cookies and making gingerbread houses out of milk cartons to celebrating my birthday. We wait for the Queen's address while telling old jokes, wearing silly hats and listening to familiar carols.
It is a time of togetherness and a time to re-establish our roots. Family traditions define who we are, they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. Susan Lieberman .These simple behaviours, thoughts and actions are passed down from generation to generation and it doesn't matter if we don't recall how they started. They are ours.
This Christmas I invite you to remember .... And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas he thought doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas perhaps means a little bit more. Dr. Seuss
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Peg Bracken