By
Doyne Phillips, Managing Editor for Southern
Writers Magazine
Our
Christmas Traditions vary from nation to nation, community to community, family
to family and individual to individual. To each his own and once started
traditions seem to change.
Our
family loves Christmas. It’s a big affair at our home. Long standing tradition for
us, 32 years, is taking in the Bellevue Singing Christmas Tree at Bellevue Baptist
Church in Cordova TN. Although it is at Bellevue it is a community effort. Another
is visiting the Peabody Hotel Lobby decorated for Christmas for the last 25
years. We also see the beautifully decorated Gaylord Opryland Hotel we have
visited for the last 29 years in Nashville, TN. In recent years we have been
attending the annual Amy Grant and Vince Gill 12 Days of Christmas program at
the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. We attend these events with the children and
grandchildren in tow.
Our
oldest traditions began and remain at home. We celebrate with our children and
grandchildren in our Christmas plays. We have all of them come gather together
for a Christmas Dinner with gift giving and the works. We are fortunate in this
modern mobile society we all live a short drive away from each other. But even
with that blessing it’s not always easy but it always seems to work out. I
believe it does because of its importance to each family member. That
connection with family tradition is truly a blessing.
We
at Southern Writers Magazine hope you feel like a part of our family. We would like
to hear of your family traditions and hope you would share them with us. As I
said traditions seem to change at times. If we hear of another tradition we may find we would like to start a new one. please share.
We
also hope you will make Southern Writers Magazine a part of
your Christmas Tradition with our Holiday Issue and our Holiday Catalog.
Most
of all we at Southern Writers Magazine wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous
New Year! All the best in 2019!
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