The New Year has arrived. In one sense it seems like it should not be here yet and in another it seems like it has been slow in arriving. Everyone has their own holiday customs. Your family might have some New Year's traditions that you keep. Our family doesn't except that we stay up until midnight (big deal!) and usually play games. Also fireworks have become a part of our New year's celebrations since living in Bolivia. Last year about this time I printed a few Bolivian customs for you to read. I decided to reprint them so here they are:
Want to travel next year? Take a walk around the block at midnight with an empty suitcase in your hand. Eating 12 grapes right at midnight will bring you good luck for the next 12 months. Counting some bills from your wallet as the new year strikes will bring you wealth. It is also lucky to be showering as the new year begins. And finally, pay attention to the color of your underwear. Red will bring love and passion into your live. Yellow is for happiness and money. Green will bring prosperity. If you want more friends wear pink. White will give you hope. Want a new wardrobe for the coming year? Wear your underwear backwards New Year's Eve or wear new clothes to the party. While all this will happen if you buy the underwear you are wearing, the results will be even greater if the underwear you are wearing was given to you as a gift.
A couple of additional items I have since learned: Climb a ladder or lay on a table. I am not quite sure what that will do (maybe bring a promotion and lots of food?.
Of course we know that the New Year is not controlled by such things but that our God holds us and the New Year in the palm of his hand. Isn't that good to know?
Have a Happy and Blessed New Year as you follow Jesus.
Who am I?
- gordon elliott
- Monrovia, Liberia
- I live in Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa with my wife and youngest son. We are recently arrived in Liberia where we are serving as missionaries with Evangelical Church Missions working under the Liberia Evangelical Mission. For most of the last thirty years we have served under ECM in Bolivia, South America. We are the happy parents of four children and the proud grandparents of two grandchildren.
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