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Aug. 26, 2009
My Own Rhythm
I walk to the rhythm of my own beat.
I'm looking around at my world and wondering why I feels so foreign in this world. I seem a little out of step. I saw one blog titled "The End Of Summer" and thought "What is she talking about?" What's going on? Another FB friend is counting down the hours to school.. what? Then the subject of conversation amongst my homeschooling friends is all about the start of the new year.. and I feel like I'm left out of the convesation.
What am I talking about? I'm talking about how our school year is NOT just about to begin. How summer is NOT over yet, and about how I'm no where close to turning over that new leaf.
See, school here won't start until after Sukkot, until after the first week of October. Right now, my brain is focused on this month of Elul, this month of reflecting on my life, "cleaning house" of sorts, making sure I'm self aware enough to know where my sin is, and where I need to "clean up my act" I'm in preparation for the Fall Feasts... I'm thinking about how I want to decorate my Sukkah, my temporary dwelling for the Feast of Tabernacles. I'm thinking about the blowing of the shofar, am I ready to hear the call of God, am I ready to stand in front of the Lord to see how I will be judged?.. Am I ready to consumate my marriage to the Lord? Am I His Pure Spotless Bride?
See what I mean? I'm completely out of step with everyone around me. I'm not focused on our academics, I'm focused on our Spiritual life.
So how will I decorate our Sukkah? Well I was listening to Bill Cloud on CD today teach about the Fall Feasts and he said that it's tradition to invite 7 guests for the 7days.. or.. to invite 7 patriarchs - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, and David. So I got to thinking, I'd really like to paint the inside of the Sukkah, right now, it's just wood. At first I thought I'd just paint it white, or some other nice colour, but now I'm thinking it needs a full coat of paint, and then it needs these patriarchs painted on the walls, life sized, so they can be our guests year after year. I'll have to find some pictures to copy.
I've had the blessed opportunity to share my walk with a few ladies recently, ladies who want to know what it is I believe, how is it the same, how is it different, as they are trying to figure out what it is God is calling them to. What a blessing to share God's word with friends, and build new relationships - new fellowship - God's Koinonia!
Meanwhile, the boys are walking deeper in their own walk with God. Camp Zimrat Yah is in mid-week tonight, and last night we went for a visit and were blessed to witness approximately 50 youth break free from spiritual bondage that they were in. I'm not part of the camp, but I so wish I was, I so wish I could fully partake of the experience... and I so wanted to be a fly on the wall and hear what it was that these young people had experienced in that session. I'm not privilege to that information though, and so I'm just trusting that God is working mightily in these young peoples lives. They are also forming their own koinonia!
Something cool also happened during last night's service. A few weeks ago, Janney went with some friends to a Backyard Bible Camp and was given a CD with some songs. One of them is called Do What's Right. So Janney was asking last night, why the youth all had their hands bound together. I told her that when we sin, it's like were' in jail, like we're prisoners to sin and we can't get free, unless God set's us free. So after all the youth had broken their bonds, she came to me in tears.. and said.. "their hands were tied together.. like that song, do what's right.". .. She was putting together the concepts of sin, and righteousness - understanding that when we do what God has commanded us, we're FREE - when we disobey, we're in bondage. A giant step for my little girl.
School can wait.. There's God's work to be done right now.
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Posted by Anonymous 
Aug. 27, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Have a blessed day today :)
Rosina