Honeymoon

Curiosity A friend of mine called the other day to tell me of his upcoming wedding. One of the first topics always seems to be where are you going for your honeymoon? I thought “honeymoon” that’s a strange word

Today Internet definitions state as “unspecified period of time after the wedding intended for private moments between the married couple.”

Norse history describes the abduction of a bride from neighboring village. It was imperative, that the abductor, the husband to be, take his bride to be into hiding for period of time. His friends assured his and her safe keeping and kept their whereabouts unknown. Once the bride's family gave up their search, the bride groom returned to his people. This folkloric explanation presumably is the origin of today's honeymoon, for its original meaning meant hiding.

Scandinavian word for honeymoon is derived, in part, from a custom in which newlyweds, for the first month of their married life, drank a daily cup of honeyed wine called mead.

Northern Europeans referred to the body's monthly cycle and, its combination with honey, suggested that not all moon's of married life were as sweet as the first. By legend, it came from an old tradition where the visiting guests and family were served honey wine for a period of one full phase of the moon, (i.e. 1 month) after the wedding.

Application Get away somewhere and “take some unspecified period of time intended for private moments” with the Lord. Enjoy company with the one who loves you so, with an everlasting love, like in Zechariah 10:7 may you become like mighty men, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the LORD.