From my recollection, during holidays, we either eat out or cook something very simple at home. I’ve nothing more to say really, at least nothing directly related to today’s prompt.
Here’s a pic we took in the Lake District, UK, in our 2003 holiday. It might be Ambleside or somewhere close. Happy days 😀. We actually stayed at Pontins in Southport. I’ve seen lots of videos criticizing Pontins, but we just slept there and used the swimming pool first thing every morning, and then we’d explore all sorts of wonderful locations throughout the day, from the Yorkshire Dales to the Lake District, Haworth, Hebden Bridge, Blackpool, York, Manchester, and Liverpool. And we’d eat out at cheap and cheerful spots wherever we went.
My musical memory of that holiday was hearing Beyonce’s Crazy in Love, as we drove to the Stena ferry in Dublin.
And now for the spiritual part of my post. I can’t really find anything in the Bible about holidays, but food is sometimes used as a metaphor:
John 6:35
Jesus says, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry.”
And I found a Beyonce song with a Christian theme. This one is from 2003. You do get many recent false AI songs by artists such as Beyonce, but this one is real – at least Microsoft Copilot says so 😀.
Appendix
Getting back to holidays, the word comes from holy days. Without holy days, maybe holidays wouldn’t have developed. In past centuries, you’d only get Sunday off. Here’s what Microsoft Copilot told me when I asked it if the Bible had anything to day about holidays:
Yes — the Bible does speak about holidays, though it usually calls them feasts, holy days, or days of rest rather than “holidays” in the modern sense.
📖 Biblical Holidays and Holy Days
- Sabbath – The most foundational “holy day,” commanded in Genesis 2:2–3 and Exodus 31:13–17, where God rested and set apart the seventh day.
- Passover – Instituted in Exodus 12 to commemorate Israel’s deliverance from Egypt.
- Feast of Unleavened Bread – A week-long observance tied to Passover, symbolizing purity and remembrance.
- Feast of Weeks / Pentecost – Celebrated 50 days after Passover, marking the wheat harvest and later associated with the giving of the Holy Spirit.
- Feast of Trumpets – A day of rest and trumpet blasts, signaling preparation and repentance.
- Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) – A solemn day of fasting and repentance, central to Israel’s worship.
- Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) – A joyful harvest festival remembering God’s provision during Israel’s wilderness journey.
- Purim – Established in Esther 9 to celebrate God’s deliverance of the Jews from Haman’s plot.
- Hanukkah – Though not in the Old Testament, it is referenced in John 10:22 as the “Feast of Dedication.”
- Christian observances – In the New Testament, believers are encouraged to celebrate with joy and thanksgiving (Romans 12:15, Colossians 2:16–17), though not bound to Old Testament festivals.
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