We wish you a merry new moon
We wish you a merry new moon
We wish you a merry new moon
And a happy month two!
It is a little late to sing the new moon song, but I was thinking about a pressing problem. When you have an unbelieving mate, that mate will seduce your children with birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and other celebrations that aren't in God's word.
My strategy is to give the kids such fun celebrations out of God's word, they don't feel up to celebrating the unbiblical feasts. So far, sabbath and pesach, shavuot, yom teruah, yom kippur and sukkot have not been enough to wean my children away from false holidays. Sabbath and Passover, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles. Can you see which celebration is missing from that list?
The New Moon celebration is missing. The New Moon is a day similar to the sabbath, when one should neither buy or sell. It is a day for feasting and rejoicing. How many sabbath keepers do all the feasts, but ignore the New Moon? What is a feast day without fun little songs and special dishes to go along with it? For the next while I plan to institute a custom in my house, and see if it helps to wean my children away from Christmas and Easter. On each New Moon day we will sing the song that this blog entry started with. At the end of the song, you say the number of the month that is just beginning. Month three, month four, etc. As the children sing the song, I will walk into the dining room carrying a figgy pudding, which is similar to fruit cake, poured over with brandy, and lit on fire to glow in the dark with a bluish alcohol flame. It will be like having Christmas and a birthday every single month.
If anyone else wants to adopt this custom, feel free. I hope it works.