Some years ago, I was cutting an avocado, and my cousin commented on the way I was cutting it. It was different from the way she cuts avocados. She wasn’t judging my way of cutting it; she was just interested that I cut it differently from her. We do things differently; we think […]
If I asked you, “What is the most important thing to me?” what would you say? Not, “who is the most important thing to me?” – that would be God, then my family (husband, kids, grandkids) – but what? What possession do I have, that if I could only own one thing, would be that
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Recently, I came across the following that I had written years ago, duing a very difficult time. * * * On Thursday, I was driving home from my counselling appointment, and I stopped by a dollar store to get something. It was in the stationery section. I noticed various journals (I was looking for something
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Recently one of our sons invited family members to join him in reading the 27 shortest books of the Bible in 27 days – one book a day. And what I discovered (only on day 2 as of this writing) is that reading through a book in one sitting gives you a different perspective than
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There is something about a new year. On one hand, nothing much changes – we wake up on January 1st and do the same things we’ve been doing. On the other hand, there is something about a new year where one hopes for a fresh start, which is why many people make “New Year’s resolutions.” One
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Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of HaShem filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of HaShem filled the tabernacle (40:34-35). The furniture of the tabernacle was set up, the tabernacle itself was set
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They made the holy garments for Aaron, as HaShem had commanded Moses (39:1). And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, …as HaShem had commanded Moses (39:5). And he set them on the shoulder pieces… as HaShem had commanded Moses (39:7). And they bound the breastpiece
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He made the basin of bronze, and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting (38:8). While this chapter continues from the previous chapter in describing articles of the tabernacle as well as its court, it is this verse that caught my
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He also made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work. Its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers were of one piece with it. And there were six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches
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And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, so that
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