It's "birthday season" around our house. We have a string of months in a row (Jan - April) where I and the kids have birthdays. (My wife is the oddball with a b-day in October)I think we tend to be rather normal for suburbia...we do an occasional "go all out" event at a kid-oriented fun center, or a themed dress-up party now and then. Most years are rather low key, consisting only of those family traditions we have established over the years.
However, a lot of the rites of passage stuff I have embraced is predicated on birthday thresholds and the celebration of arriving at a new "stage". In that sense, certain birthdays are seen as a big deal in our household.
With that in mind I present a couple of short opinion articles on celebrating birthdays as Christians. I am still digesting these but would be interested in other's opinions.
Should a Christian Celebrate Birthdays? Article 1
Should Christians Celebrate Birthdays? Article 2
The first article really scares me. Plus, it looks they were WRONG when they stated there were no birthday celebrations in the bible (i.e. Job's sons).
ReplyDeleteNow, if you threw a big birthday party for yourself, that would be pretty vain.
Having a birthday party for your children is just one more way to remind them of how much you love them.