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\"\"Let the recovery from the madness of the holiday begin!\u00a0 Take a deep breath! Let it out and hopefully we can reflect on the joy of the season devoid of the crazy pace of last minute gifts, crowded shopping centers and the discomfort of distended bellies from a week of a non stop feeding frenzy!<\/span>
\n Many of us will gather with friends and family, and partake of a variety of seasonal activities.\u00a0\u00a0 For some,\u00a0 decorating the tree or the hanging of the stockings is a special family time.\u00a0 For others, it\u2019s the Christmas music which fills our airwaves, churches and invades the tunes we whistle as we walk from the car to shopping centre for a last minute item.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nFor many of us, our thoughts go to our childhood and the many special moments with folks we love who can\u2019t be with us. The thoughts of those special times may bring a smile to our lips and a tear to the eye.<\/span><\/p>\n

For me Christmas has always been a great time and full of tradition.\u00a0 One such tradition for our family is the annual trek to the mountains to harvest our own Christmas tree.\u00a0 We head westbound with picnic lunches, coffee and hot chocolate in our thermos, sleds, mitts and toques.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We arrive in the snow filled mountains and begin our hunt for the new Rose family \"\"Christmas tree.\u00a0\u00a0 The hunt is interrupted by snowball fights, sledding, a bite to eat and warm drinks and then back to the business of finding a tree.\u00a0 \u201cHow about this one\u201d\u00a0 my son calls out pointing to a 40 foot Lodge Pole pine and we burst out into laughter with memories of the movie National Lampoons Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase (another family tradition!).\u00a0 This tradition is one of many we enjoy as a family.\u00a0 Do I hope it is a tradition my sons will continue with their families?\u00a0 Sure I do, but more so, I hope they take to heart the wisdom or the values within the tradition itself \u2013 the value of family and relationship.\u00a0 The tree hunt is nothing more than a means to that end, to enjoy each other and make memories together, to laugh, play and love.<\/span><\/p>\n

Traditions are often symbols representing values and they become traditions because at one time they answered the cry of someone\u2019s heart.\u00a0 Tradition serves us in ways that perhaps few of us have considered.\u00a0 For example, traditions within a family, church or culture at large connects us to a bigger story \u2013 we all come from somewhere and have been shaped and formed by many different traditions, sometimes good and healthy and sometimes not so healthy.\u2028\u2028\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Healthy tradition can help us discover our identity, our story, who we are and where we come from.\u00a0 This sense of connectedness is important; consider as Christians we are connected and shaped by our past, our history, most especially Jesus.\u00a0 It is in Jesus we get a sense of who we are as a child of God and our place in the family.\u00a0 Tradition is also helpful to help us get a sense of how we fit in the larger story.\u00a0 As a Christian, as a follower of Jesus, what do I value and why? And then, \u201cHow then shall I live?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Healthy traditions are a means of developing meaningful relationship with God. <\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Healthy tradition can be life giving but unhealthy tradition can suck the life out of you!\u00a0 I will not address tradition of dysfunction (Addiction, violence, etc) here but rather traditions which perhaps at one time were healthy but over time have become septic and have long since lost any sense of the values or wisdom they once symbolized.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When our symbols remain symbols for their own sake and do not connect us to life, they in fact begin to poison us.\u00a0 They enslave us to a form which is empty because the symbol itself has lost it\u2019s relevance.\u00a0\u00a0 This in no way implies a rejection of the values in which it at one time symbolized, the symbol has simply lost its heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember as a new Christian I was a part of what many would call a \u201cmainline\u201d church.\u00a0 The denomination has a rich heritage and in my opinion when she is true to her roots and her values, she is a very rich and healthy tradition.\u00a0\u00a0 This denomination values tradition, scripture and reason which I believe can be very rich.\u00a0 My experience with tradition within that context was not a positive one.\u00a0\u00a0 I found myself clashing with symbols which were not meaningful to me and I attempted to create new symbols in new forms with the values intact.\u00a0 This was met with distrust and hostility because the old symbol was no longer about the value but the outward manifestation.\u00a0 The means had become the end.\u00a0\u00a0 The specifics of the tradition had, in a way, become God, had become their identity. As Jesus experienced, when you mess with peoples symbols, you are bound to cause trouble!\u00a0\u00a0 Jules Pheiffer said \u201cImagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function\u201d and this was what was happening.\u00a0 (In fairness to the few folks that were so upset, I was young and had little or no appreciation of tradition.\u00a0 In honesty, I did not afford them honor and the respect I should have.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Personal relationship with Jesus is paramount and healthy traditions facilitate that end.\u00a0 Graham Cooke from England suggests:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to find our security in intimacy with the Father, not in how we can expect Him to do things.\u00a0 The church usually has it the wrong way around; great security in methods and little security in who the Father is.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, healthy traditions are a means of developing meaningful relationship with God.\u00a0\u00a0 When the symbol no longer translates, or communicates a healthy value then the symbol needs to change NOT the value.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leonard Sweet<\/a> writes in his book Aqua Church:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am a virtual fundamentalist about content (values).\u00a0 I am a virtual libertarian about containers (Tradition).\u00a0 Only in Jesus Christ did container and content become one.\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 comments about new wine in old wineskins remind us that we cannot make an idol of any form or container.\u00a0 We must not elevate ecclesial form to the level of authority or primacy that belongs only to the content.<\/span><\/span>
\n Unfortunately, much of the church is as fundamentalist about the containers as I am about content, and as libertarian about content as I am about containers.\u00a0 Too many churches will only pour living water into something they would like or would pick up.\u00a0 A lot of churches are languishing because they don\u2019t trust the gospel to fit and fill containers with handles they don\u2019t like.\u2028\u2028\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The mystery of the gospel is this:\u00a0 It is always the same (content), and it is always changing (container).\u00a0 In fact, for the gospel to remain the same, it has to change.\u00a0 The old, old story needs to be tools in new, new ways.\u00a0 In fact one of the ways you know the old,\u00a0 old truths are true is their ability to assume amazing and unfamiliar shapes while remaining themselves and without compromising their integrity.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, there is a ditch on both sides of the road.\u00a0\u00a0 While tradition can be life giving, it too can become septic and meaningless.\u00a0 I have heard it said that we need to recapture the church of Acts, however I think it\u2019s probably more healthy to become like the church just before Jesus returns.\u00a0 However, this church can never be realized without building upon the healthy values and traditions of our rich past.\u00a0 The health of a tradition has very little to do with it\u2019s age.\u00a0\u00a0 Our western culture places great emphasis on new, and very often disparages the old as out of date and irrelevant.\u00a0\u00a0 I would caution us, this is a very shallow and dangerous view.\u00a0 I have become convinced that we have much to learn from our history, from those who have wrestled through ideas, theology, philosophy and more over, those who have wrestled with the very issue which many take for granted.\u00a0 Ancient thought has provided a foundation of tradition for us to live and grow in faith.\u00a0\u00a0 The doctrines of the trinity, incarnation, the resurrection are but a few of the traditions which we owe to the past.\u00a0 Many of us have benefited from the traditions that have come through the Reformation and the various, rich stories of men and women, who like each of us, have wrestled with the questions of \u2018How do we live? <\/strong> How can we have a relationship with Jesus?\u00a0 What is my relationship to the world?\u00a0 What am I called to be and do?\u2019\u00a0 Many of these voices have contributed to healthy spirituality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" Consider Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) who said \u201cGod is not loved without reward, even though He should be loved without thought of reward.\u201d\u00a0 He also describes four degrees of love; 1) Man loves himself for his own sake, 2) Man loves God for his own good, 3) Man loves God for Gods sake, 4) Man loves himself for God\u2019s sake.\u00a0 Bernard of Clairvaux believed as we mature, we journey through the degrees. As we live life, the good, the bad and the ugly, through it all, we can experience and fall deeper in love with God.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a brilliant bit of wisdom and a deep value, one which we can be very real to us even though it comes from a voice almost 1000 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n

In our postmodern age where it is fashionable to deconstruct often times indiscriminately, it may be enlightening to pause and consider the value that tradition may have in our life as a means of rooting us to our family, community, culture and values; not as mill stone to be lugged behind us but as a foundation to stand upon, to perhaps see a little further than those who have gone before us.\u00a0 The tension, like so many things in the Kingdom, is to continue our journey together, rooted with a historic sense of those who have gone before us, those whom have labored to pass on the hope of Christ, and the call forward, with imagination and creativity, forging today\u2019s traditions and symbols which point to our glorious Lord and Savior for those who have hearts to hear.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let the recovery from the madness of the holiday begin!\u00a0 Take a deep breath! 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