The Amish community in which a family lives largely determines the extent of their New Year's Day celebrations.
Some Amish families make New Year’s Day their biggest feast day of the year. The feast most likely will include fresh beef or pork roasted to perfection. (It’s the time of year when they slaughter and process their winter’s supply of meat.) They will also serve a variety of the family’s favorite side dishes. The all-day celebration will usually include time spent with extended family as well.
Other Amish families merely regard New Year’s Day as a day of leisure, relaxing, vacationing, or hunting.
There are also some Amish families who consider it just an ordinary work day. The men may be picking corn by hand, while the women do laundry and baking.
As a child, my Amish family usually enjoyed the day at a get-together with extended family, or we simply made it a vacation day at home.
We generally didn’t bother with New Year’s resolutions. Our resolve to improve our life was more like an everyday, year-round goal. However, if the truth be known, I imagine some of my Amish friends do make secret resolutions.
Don’t we all like to set goals? Sometimes they are attained, and sometimes they are dismissed a few weeks later. As the saying goes, “better to shoot for the moon and miss, than shoot at nothing and hit it.”
May the New Year hold realistic and achievable life-long goals for you, inspired by the Lord Jesus Christ!
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