This past Saturday evening was our first hosting of friends for 2025.
Though is it more likely due to giving a month’s advance notice, what seems to make the night well-attended, is me preparing a smoked brisket, pork shoulder or tri-tip. Add the NFL playoff game, and something to make the outside venue a little warmer. Our “fellowship” night in January, over the last four years, have seen lows in the 40s F. This year we added heaters and streamed the game on a large television in the gazebo.
Compared to parts of the country where frigid weather is only considered when the digits dip into the Negative, we are having a temperate winter.
The best part of a Saturday evening party for friends approaching our age, is we all retire to our own respective beds before 930PM. These sorts of gatherings mesh with our worldview that is spiritually-centered. To model for our children and neighbors the positives of our common humanity, we continue to strengthen bonds of friendship and common faith. My next goal is to strengthen relationships in the church we have been actively supporting with potlucks and smoked brisket and movie and game nights.
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