Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a “Christmas box”, from their bosses or employers,^[1] in the United Kingdom, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December.

Leave it to the banks to take a day and make it another day off or as our friends across the pond call it “Holiday”!

When I hear “Boxing” I am thinking something other than leftover gifts and Christmas wrap laying all over the place. I am thinking couple of guys, squaring up and taking jabs and swings at each other. It is a brutal sport that requires lots of conditioning and preparation. We will be going a few rounds at The Yard on this Boxing day, so wear your gloves and tape up as it will be a beatdown unlike others.

On Boxing Day, December 26, 2015, we will be honoring this sport and conditioning our bodies after the holiday feasts. To prepare for the upcoming new year and the physical challenges we set before us, (New Years Trail Run, Joe Davis run, The Yeti, P200) but also the spiritual challenges that are before us, (marriage, parenthood, profession, community). We will prepare our bodies, minds and hearts to battle through and have a story to tell. My verse for 12/26/15…..

Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:1

• Convergence at THE YARD (Ft Mill Middle School)
• Coffeeteria post workout at Ft Mill Family Restaurant (Tom Hall Street at Foodlion)

See you in da gloom and bring a friend, family member or neighbor along!

Cake Boss