Fire Ceremony

So, every New Years and Fourth of July we have a Fire Ceremony. We start a fire in our awesome fire pit. While it's getting started, everyone writes down things on a piece of paper. It can be goals, positive things. It can be things we want to let go of and leave in the past. It can be negative things we want to leave behind. 

It's an Indian tradition. The ashes of the good things, the things we want or desire, float up to Heavenly Father and he hears them. The ashes of the negative things that we want to leave behind in the past year, float away in the wind and leave us. After you write your list, you put your paper in the fire. Then, you take a glass of sparkling cider, Martinellis, and drink it up. It's been a fun tradition that has helped us individually in many ways. 

For me, last fire ceremony, which was the 4th of July, right before I got married. I burned notebooks worth of papers that helped me release some of my "baggage" before I got married. It was very helpful. Everyone has things they want to leave behind in the past year. But we also have things we desire and want to have to look forward to in the coming year. It's a spiritual ceremony and can be as serious as you would like. And hey, it's cheaper then therapy. :) 

A toast to another year!