April Fools
Today is April Fool’s and many people try their best to fool other people and I have been good at it over the years – nothing malicious, but eminently believable for the unsuspecting and the uncritical!
Only 21 more days until our Passover Seder, no fooling.
There are five special Shabbats this month – Shabbat Parah (red heifer – Adam’s cow – He was made in Adam’s image so He could defeat sin and be our perfecet sacrifice); Shabbat HaChodesh – (the beginning of Nissan when Pharaoh was warned that G-d’s patience was done and deliverance was going to happen). HaGadol – the last shabbat before the Seder – redemption, both from Egypt and on Calvary are the two biggest biggies in our confused cosmos.
The two Shabbats over the seven(eight) days of Passover. Time to preach on the song of songs and then to do our first Yizkor (memorial) of the new festival cycle.
We had a wonderful celebration of Purim – a sermon on timing and a play, followed by an amazing feast, with the kids running wild and stuffing themselves!
I appreciate everyone’s efforts to be scent free, but I am not the only sensitive one in the congregation – two of my grandkids, and several others. My youngest grandchild was so affected by the time we got her home, they had to bathe her and change her clothes and let her sleep for a while.
People may find me somewhat dramatic (I sincerely hope they do), but even though my perfume sensitivity is improving, it is still as potentially severe as a peanut allergy and just as a whiff of peanuts can trigger a major reaction, so can a little whiff of perfume. No one wears scent for health reasons, but just to smell nicer- it is not a matter of politeness to avoid using scent, it is a matter of not putting other people’s health at risk – some people just do not get it, so I avoid them!
Plerase do not be disappointed and try to buy your Seder ticket when they are all sold – there will not be any available at the door, even though every year people show up and try to get in. We have to let our caterer know how many and we only set a certain number of places and here is a saying from a wise person – a lack of planning on your behalf does no constitute a crisis on my behalf.
As the festival cycle turns for another year, I can hardly wait to see all the good things our Messiah has in store for us as we walk with Him through the whatever’s which will come our way. You too?
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