November 24, 2011
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Happy Turkey Day?
I… have to be honest with you.
I’m just… ((sigh!)) SO. NOT. into it this year.The fact of the matter is that Thanksgiving is just like X-mess and Ishtar. It’s a twist – a distortion – of God’s will. It’s true. Hundreds of years ago, the Pilgrims had a feast in the harvest season to worship Yehovah. As I have learned recently, they had broken away from the church and were of a Messianic thought system, and were actually keeping the feasts. The dinner they had was Sukkot – it was the end of September/start of October. It’s still celebrated then in Canada.You can thank Abe Lincoln for moving it to the end of November. Shoving it right up into the winter season. Harvest is LONG over, the colors faded out weeks ago, it’s not in keeping with the pumpkins and fall leaves and gourds we decorate with (I know… what’s left in my garden is now rotting… it’s too late in the season, anymore). He apparently wanted to disassociate from the Hebrew feast it originally was. And isn’t that what Rome did with Ishtar/Easter? We don’t want it ‘Jewish’ (heaven forbid!)… nevermind that Messiah *was* a Jew. So instead of keeping Passover for all generations as scripture says, let’s move and distort it by putting it on the pagan worship day of Ishtar, which is the first Sun-day after the spring equinox. For that matter, let’s move Messiah’s birth from Sukkot all the way out to Mithras’ feast day, and mix him in with Roman pagan mythology. Why keep Yehovah’s commands? He won’t care if we fudge a little, right?
Frankly, I’m about holi-day-ed out right now. We just came off Rosh Ha’Shana, Yom Kippur, Kol Nidre, Tashlich, Sukkot, and Simchat Torah. That’s a LOT… and a breather before Channukah would’ve been nice. But alas, not to be. ((sigh!)) So I’m making cheesy potatoes and pumpkin cake (bars) with toffee crunch topping, and spending seven hours sitting at my mother’s (I’m bringing an afghan to crochet… heaven knows I need SOMETHING to do).
I think the Jewish sites I read have it right. Yehovah gave us just the right amount of celebrations. Anymore is just overkill… and who needs the distortions when we have the ones that honor Him with our obedience? I just wish the other people I knew felt the same… a return to Truth: would it be too much to ask for? ((And are the Jewish bloggers right – that having this attitude actually pleases Ha’Shem?))
Comments (7)
I am not especially into the holidays this year either. Which is odd. I LIKE the holidays. Fun fun. But this year? They seem like an interruption.
That said, there’s some great food cooking today, and we’ll have a wonderful family get-together. I’m really looking forward to that.
11yo is in the kitchen baking a cake (because he really wanted to make something for TG) and I’m working on a paleo-friendly pie crust for Grandma’s pumpkin pie. DH, who has been working disgusting hours for two months, is asleep (theoretically, we’re being noisy) and so is 7yo. The house is clean. It’s going to be a great day.
As a matter of fact, I think today might be a truly *enjoyable* Thanksgiving where we can slow down and give thanks.
But still, no “holiday” feel or spirit to it at all, at least for me.
Weird.
If I don’t like something I just don’t do it….
I hear ya. I was happy because I was going to get the kids…but not feeling the “holiday glow”. We’re looking forward to Hanukkah…this? Was an interruption to our normal schedule. :sigh:
The only reason, I’m ‘feeling’ it is because Hubby got off for 4 days. A rarity these days. I understand though. Very much looking forward to Hanukkah like Fiberaddict.
Mamabear: And yet you’re STILL reading my every word…
I’m having trouble getting into the holidays because it seems like we just fast-forwarded through a few months. We were just celebrating 4th of July a few weeks ago, right? I blinked somewhere in there and now we’re almost to christmas. Is it just me or is time getting faster? It probably doesn’t help much that christmas decorations were right there next to the red, white, and blue banners this year. I think I saw a Santa in a halloween mask with a turkey on his lap.
For the first time in years I didn’t celebrate thanksgiving, and you know it felt like a breath of fresh air. My dinner consisted of a chip butty, and no one around here celebrates it anyway. It’s just another day. But I do think being thankful for what blessings we are given by the Lord isn’t just something we should be celebrating on one random day a year, it should be something we’re thankful for every single day.