Ideas for Embracing Rosh Hashanah (The Feast of Trumpets)
Rosh Hashanah (or The Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah) is one of the 3 Major Biblical Festivals. The other two are Passover and Pentecost. Rosh Hashanah is also the first of three very special fall festivals. Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) follows 10 days after Rosh Hashanah. These days…
Embracing the Biblical Feasts and Celebrations (our family’s journey…)
It’s Christmas time again and many people are wondering why some Christians are lighting Menorahs instead of putting up Christmas Trees. And – wow– I’ve been getting so many messages from sweet Moms asking if I could share our journey towards the Biblical Feasts and Celebrations. There is…
Ideas for Celebrating a Christ-Centered Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication/Festival of Lights)
If you are wondering why a Christian might celebrate Hanukkah, I’m working on a post that answers that very question. Also, can I humbly suggest you might read my two other posts about Hanukkah? In them I go into more detail about Hanukkah and the deep, wonderful meaning behind…
Ideas for Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
Psst… This is only our second year celebrating the Biblical Feasts, so if you’re new to this, so am I and we’re in this together, sister! It is all very new and exciting (and somewhat mysterious in parts!) to us. We are, by no means, experts in embracing these…
Ideas for Embracing a Christ-centered Passover
Over the past couple of years our family has been on a totally unexpected journey. The Lord has met us in the most beautiful ways and we’ve started to walk in faith on a very new and unfamiliar (but exciting!) path. The new path led us to embracing the…
For Such a Time as This… Whispers for Purim {The Feast of Lots}
“Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” These are the words spoken by Mordecai to Queen Esther that have echoed for thousands of years. Esther, an orphan, through God’s divine orchestration, becomes Queen of all of the great kingdom of…
Reflections from a Christ-Centered Hanukkah
It has been oddly mild for late December and I can’t help but be glad for the not-so-wintery weather. Last year we were in the midst of the biggest ice storm to hit Southern Ontario in years. This year we’ve been playing with hens in the grassy backyard! So…
Embracing the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah)
We’re hanging lights and dancing around the kitchen in December again. But this year there is a different feeling in our home. There is a deep, indescribable peace. A peace I’ve never felt before. There are no gifts to purchase. Nothing to wrap. No stress. No bustle. This year,…
Whispers from our first Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
If you aren’t familiar with the Feast of Tabernacles, can I whisper a suggestion to consider reading my last post, written as we prepared to celebrate? I stall miserably in taking down our Sukkah. I watched through the back window as my husband disassembled the last of our beautiful…
Whispers for the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
It poured rain this morning at the same time the sun was shining bright. Our country windows were glistening tiny sparkles of cleansing rain. She called to me from the back room, “Mama!!! A rainbow!” There it was, stretched across the autumn sky – the rainbow that always brings…