Our New Christian Family New Year
This year we started a simple New Year tradition that as a Christian mom, I LOVE.
And this was no small feat.
The tv countdowns are nothing I’m keeping my daughter up for. I mean, Miley Cyrus? No thanks. Billy? Yes. Miley? No.
And what has happened to Dolly?! Was I the only one who caught her distilled faith? That woman used to be powerful! But maybe that kind of power isn’t allowed on network television.
I digress.
What I was looking for was a God-centered New Year.
And I found it.
On tiny pieces of paper, I wrote some Bible verses to look up—perfect scriptures for entering the new year.
I folded each one tiny and tucked each into a balloon. My daughter and I began the blowing.
Then we used a Sharpie to draw big round clocks on each balloon (upside-down since they’d hang that way). Each balloon had a different hour. And on the hour, as a countdown throughout the afternoon and evening, we’d pop that hour’s balloon and look up the scripture we found inside.
Not gonna lie—I got a little carried away and sounded like a southern baptist preacher and read not just the single scripture, but the whole chapter sometimes. They were THAT good.
Powerful for stepping into the new year.
Encouraging. And they helped boost my outlook. I really needed that this year.
DIY Christian Family New Year
In case you’d like to do the same, the Bible verses we used included:
Isaiah 43:19
Lamentations 3:22-23
2 Corinthians 5:17
1 Peter 1:3
Psalm 98:1
and Revelation 21:5
I also wrote down some questions, cut them out, folded them, and dropped them into a big bowl on the kitchen table.
Each hour we popped a balloon, my daughter drew one out of the bowl. We all took turns answering the questions with our memories from the year.
As you’d probably expect, I made them into a pretty download for you.
