In our home, we celebrate the Advent season by focusing on our blessings, ending the season with thanks for Jesus' birth. This tradition came about as neither of us were thrilled with the Advent calendar, where you open a door to receive a chocolate or ornament. We also felt that Thanksgiving came and went every year without acknowledgment of thankfulness. And so, we started the Gratitude Tree.
Every day, we write what we are grateful for that day. We slip the paper into a felt envelope for that day, hanging from the tree. At the end of the season, we take the cards out and put them away. The following Thanksgiving, we pull them out and read what we were grateful for the previous year.
This Advent, what are you grateful for? We have much to be grateful for and it's nice to reflect on that rather than the complaints and worries that tend to fill our heads.
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