SON A E OF S A
Gratitude Tips and traditions to help you hold onto gratitude a little longer.
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winter 2021
compiled by Ann Cook
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hristmas music, Black Friday sales, and endless holiday activities seem to begin earlier each year. There’s a term for this phenomenon—it’s “Christmas Creep!” No wonder we struggle to give Thanksgiving the place we’d like it to have in our lives or to have a heart of gratefulness for more than an afternoon the last Thursday of November. We’ve asked our JBU staff and friends
to share tips and traditions they have used to hold onto gratitude a little longer, decrease stress, and keep the focus on Christ during Christmas. We hope you will find these helpful. After all, the holidays weren’t created to revel in what we can accomplish; Thanksgiving and Christmas are celebrations meant to honor what God has done!
