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Moon Walks

by Kenneth L. Pierpont


In our local library is a delightful children's book called Owl Moon by Jane Yolen. It's about a little girl and her daddy walking through the snow on a winter night to see an owl. Somewhere, in some city, a grown-up girl thinks about her daddy years ago bundling-up his little girl and making a memory while field on field of fresh snow reflected the moon's luminous glow. She writes her memory down and adds full-color illustrations and thousands of us enjoy the walk with her. A wise man. A blessed little girl.

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
I love it that they love to be with me, talking quietly or just
walking along in sweet quietness until the sounds of the night calm
our spirits. Usually we just tramp along pulling cool night air into
our lungs. On our moon walks words aren't always needed to communicate. Dozens of delightful things engage our senses as we walk:

The music of a spring leaping from a hillside in the springtime
Cricket and frog duets in the summer
Leaves crumpling underfoot in the fall
The crunch of frozen ground in winter
The wind blowing across an open field
Stirring in the leaves of a big Oak beside the road
A plane droning it's way across the vast night sky
The lonely sound of a truck grinding its way across the valley
Walking sticks tapping on the road.
Blinking fireflies
The perfume of new-mown hay

But these little delights are extras. The real joy of the full-moon
walk is just being with those we love. Listening to each other and
listening with each other. I love to be with them and I love it that
they love to be with me. And sometimes on our night walks I peer into the endless night sky past a thousand stars and out into the place where God dwells alone and I am awed that He loves to be with me and that he loves it that I love to be with Him!


Kenneth L. Pierpont copyright 2001
pierpont@mail.riverview.net

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Ken Pierpont is the Director of the Riverfront Character Inn and
International Conference Center in Flint, Michigan. He and his wife Lois
live in the Inn with four sons and four daughters. They sing as a family
and Ken speaks at churches, camps, retreats and conferences. Ken sends a
free newsletter with an original story every Monday morning called the
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Thought For The Day:

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
-Mark Twain-


Verse for the Day:

"Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you."
Colossians 3:13


Kid's Thought for the day:

"You'll never catch a frog if you are worried about getting your shorts wet."


Parent's Thought For The Day

Never, never be too proud to say, "I'm sorry," to your child when you've made a mistake.


Coach's Thought For The Day

"Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the "impossible," we very soon would find the truth of that old saw that nothing is impossible...Abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish." -- C. E. Welch

 

Writer's Thought For The Day:

"After several weeks of ripping pages from my typewriter, crumpling and hurling them across the room, a histrionic gesture I'd picked up from one of those wearisome movies about sensitive artists, I recalled what had worked for me the first time: writing the novel I was desperate to read." --Susan Isaacs


Deep Thought For The Day:

"I finally managed to teach my dog to beg. Last night he came home with $15.00."

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