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by Kenneth L. Pierpont
We have a tradition in our home. We call it the "moon walk," but it's not what you might think. It is not a dance step (we're card-carrying Baptists and don't go in for any kind of dancing. When I was a boy I would even get a note to excuse me from square dancing in gym class. The first Baptist preacher, John the Baptist, lost his head at a dance so, you see, we Baptists have a healthy aversion to them). The deal is, I promised the kids that on full-moon nights they don't have to go to bed until I take them on a walk by the light of the moon. They love this tradition. I love it more. It started years ago on a cool fall night when Yoder, our beagle, now gone to his doggie reward, was just a tiny pup. It was a Saturday night and I picked up my walking stick to go out into the night and pray and prepare my heart for the Lord's day. Kyle asked to go along. Yoder insisted on coming to. The moon was big and bright and the air cool. We walked past tall corn ripening for harvest along a wide grassy waterway. We talked to the Lord as we walked. We followed a lane cut through a wood like a dark tunnel shaded from the moonlight. It opened into an arch of misty light at the other end. I made the comment on the way back to the house, "We ought to take a walk every time there is a full moon." That was it. It became a cherished family tradition. When dozens of things that we spent hundreds of dollars on are long forgotten, we will all still remember our moon walks. King's Island and Cedar Point don't have anything like that. I have a snapshot in the album of my memory of a path of light cast by the moon on a surface of a mountain lake a few years ago. I think the reason we love our walks so much is simply because we love being together. I love to be with the children. And most of all The music of a spring leaping from a hillside in the springtime But these little delights are extras. The real joy of the full-moon
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