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Sep. 19, 2009
Sabbath At Home
Well, the decision has been made, and our notification to our congregation sent, we are now home churching. We are now keeping Sabbath at home by ourselves. It means we'll have to make a concerted effort to fellowship with others at other times - that's ok.
So, part of this decision to worship at home, to follow God on our own, without a leadership over us, means we've decided to follow a different calendar. Now I know for you Christians who don't keep Torah, the whole Hebrew calendar thing is foreign.. and for you Torah Keepers, the calendar issue seems to be a big wedge that causes divisions. It is not my design to cause anyone to make any changes in calendar as I share. This is OUR journey. This is a decision we made for ourselves. We respect other's decisions on the calendar they keep, and do not want it to be a wedge that affects fellowship. But for us, the change in calendar was important to how we wanted to walk out our faith, how we wanted to walk in obedience to God. - If you're interested in knowing what change we made, look at Sanhedrin Committee Concerning the Calendar
Today for us was just a Sabbath, not a high holiday. All that I wrote about Yom Teruah in my previous post, we'll do that tomorrow afternoon, after the new moon has been sighted in Israel.
Now given that today was a transition day, transitioning from how we used to keep Sabbath at our congregation, transitioning to the new calendar, we didn't really have a "flow" to follow. Instead we just winged it. We didn't read from a Parsha last night, because others were reading from the Yom Kippur readings - and we weren't doing Yom Kippur. We didn't want to get ahead of the weeks either by reading next week's Parsha, so instead we discussed the article from my guest blog. I have been having quite a discussion with my homeschooler friends on this, and from a perspective I didn't expect, so we read the article and discussed and I also read out the ideas of the other ladies.
Today Stuart and the little kids watched Oy Babies - a kids DVD of Hebrew songs, some are prayers, some are songs from the Feasts.. Meanwhile Trent and I listened to a Paltalk teaching by Jeff Gilbert from Colorado. Then Stuart and I sat with Janney and Asher and listened to the Kids Torah teaching from FFOZ on a DVD, about blood that spoke (Able's blood and the Messiah's blood) and then we read the story from the kids Bible - the story of Cain and Able.
We moved to the table and the kids cut out finger puppets of Abraham and Isaac and we went through the story of God calling Abraham to sacrifice his son, and God providing the ram stuck in the thicket. The we played a game of Consentration with pictures of the fall feasts and a game of "Let My People Go". While Trent and Rourke listened to another teaching on Paltalk by Brad Scott. (Myles was at driver's ed)
For lunch we went to have fellowship with friends, and then after went to play in the park while we waited for Myles to finish driver's ed. We came home to nap.
This has been a good Sabbath. It's been restful, and happy. It's been unhurried and we felt Shalom.
Tomorrow we'll do some work, some homeschooling, some house keeping, some renovations.. and then keep our eyes out on a website to make sure the new moon has been sighted in Israel, and then head to the beach to do our Yom Teruah celebrations. Stuart can't take off Monday from work, so we can't do it then.
Change is good.
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