Don't Sell Your Family Traditions For Money

I read today from an old 1900’s commentary, “Materialistic standards of success control to many parental (personal) hopes, and consequently bring ruin upon distinguished family traditions.”  It made me think about what are the distinguished family traditions of our clan?  I will list some of my treasured ones.

-I kiss all my family when we meet. 

-We have “Bible Story Time” every evening and close by getting on our knees to

            pray.  Betty and I still do it every night.

-We often share the Lord’s Supper together as a family.

-We build altars to God everywhere.   

-We hike, camp, travel, and picnic with very little separation from the wilderness. 

-We never allow any of us to take ourselves seriously.

-We play seriously, we are very competitive. 

-We are loud cheerers and easy criers. 

I think this is the first altar we ever built on our first farm in Plesant Hill Tennessee.