Buckhorn News
By ETHEL SKIPPER
Happy New Year!
We have two faces: one looking into the past, the other looking into the future.
Welcome in the new year with a traditional new year’s dish and luck will follow you all year long. Many people enjoyed the same meal dating back to the 1800s with black-eyed peas and meat – usually pork, bacon or ham. The meal can include collard greens and cornbread. Some people have a tradition of eating it at midnight on New Year’s Eve and make their resolutions for the new year.
The symbolic importance of the new year’s dish is to bring good fortune to the new year. The black-eyed peas represent coins. Collard greens represent dollars or cash. Tomatoes if included represent health.
The custom is to eat all the black-eyed peas on your plate but three.
We wish you a happy new year!
Our prayers and concern goes out to all the sick and shut-in, those in hospitals, nursing homes, prison, the homeless – all in need of help everywhere. Let us pray that all people will be born again: John 10:10: “I am come that they might have life.”