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Okay, I want to open this up for some discussion. With Christmas in a few days, I thought we could talk about it.
What are your plans? Are you spending Christmas with your family? With your church? When are you going to wake up? What are you going to eat?
How are you going to serve others?
Serving Suggestions:
(1) Create a plan right now for how you’re going to give instead of get this Christmas in a way you’ve perhaps not given before.
(2) Leave a comment with your plans for the day. Come on – we want to know (almost 
) every detail.
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I plan on going to Kansas if there isn’t a blizzard. We are going to spend time with my wife’s family.
I am not sure about serving. I plan on surviving because it will mostly this one introvert among extroverts.
Wow, have a safe trip. Are you driving? Just showing up at your in-laws house for Christmas would count as (intensely difficult) serving for some. :>)
Hope it’s more of an easy blessing for you though. Enjoy!
-Marshall Jones Jr.
I am driving if it doesn’t start to snow and ice.
Enjoy your Christmas also.
I’m going to Jersey. Being Cuban-Colombian, my family celebrates Christmas on Christmas Eve. I think many Latin American countries do this, at least these two do… anyway… our family is really into the arts, so everyone has been preparing a musical piece or Bible reading for the gathering. I’m going to be on the piano, and everyone else is going to chose a piece for their guitar, flute, violin, voice etc. Its fun, and it gives God glory!
(I think I’ll give the gift of not vocalizing my disapproval of other people’s romantic involvements this year. Everyone already knows my opinion on unequally yoked anyway and Christmas isn’t the time to get into it…I think).
What are your Christmas plans?
So cool. My family usually has a Christmas Eve celebration too, but we’re not Cuban-Colombian… at least I didn’t think we were. But maybe…
This is exactly why I wanted to ask this question. For me, Christmas is a fairly standard tradition, though I hesitate to call anything “tradition” anymore. But every family celebrates differently. I love finding out what everyone else does, how it’s similar and how it’s different.
I like your idea of performing a musical piece or Bible reading. I haven’t done that on Christmas in a long time. My brothers and I used to play music for Christmas for our grandparents when we were younger, but I haven’t done that in a while now. Sounds like fun though.
For my Christmas, I’m heading over to my grandparents’ house in Stamping Ground, Kentucky (just love that name). Actually, that’s going happening Christmas Eve. On Christmas, the other side of my family including my brothers and sister, my parents, my grandparents, and one of my uncles and cousins will celebrate together. That’s when everything gets insane. It’s like nonstop action all day long.
Looking forward to it. It still feels weird that Christmas is actually here already. I guess it’s time to get used to it ’cause… it’s here.
Have an amazing Christmas,
-Marshall Jones Jr.
Sounds like it was a fun Christmas, and is the place really called Stamping Ground? That’s very cool. I haven’t run into any weird names in East Ohio, everything here seems to be named after Greek myths…
Amanda!
Sure is called Stamping Ground. I think they moved there just for the address. :>) Greek myths is funny too… for example?
-Marshall Jones Jr.