February 2 in the United states is celebrated as groundhog day. This tradition’s origins are from the European Christian tradition of Candlemas Day. Many of the traditions we have today are adapted variations of earlier ones, groundhogs in the United States replaced the European hedgehog and the name change followed shortly after. Candlemas began as a Christian celebration for the presentation of Jesus, 40 days after his birth, February 2 on our current calendar. Now the celebration continues as a day but practically no one in the US remembers the origins of it. Proverbs 5; 21—23, “For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him. He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.” The traditions that man invents for his entertainment easily lead to sin and death, but the instructions from our Creator bring life.