The Torah Portion for this week is “Shelach” and is found in the 37th reading, Numbers 13:1-15:41. Literally, it means to ‘send out’. So I ask you, have you been ‘sent out’? What do I mean, you ask? Well, in this reading, we see that Moshe sent out 12 spies to check out the land that the Holy One said…
So the Torah/Law is done away with – right? WRONG! Let’s look at that again. Most that believe the law is done away with go right to Romans 8:2 – “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” So…wait, let’s read that again. Start from the…
Sometimes we have a hard time ‘letting Him in’ … It comes with all the ups and downs of life, the chaos all around us and the uncertainty of tomorrow – it’s just hard. But here’s a beautiful song from Psalm 139:8 … close your eyes, and listen….and let Him in.
Well, we can’t talk about Ruth without remembering a bit about Orpah ( and yes, I’ve heard that one letter was changed in her name for that famous one in our time). Orpah….decided to listen to her mother-in-law, Naomi and turned away and went back home. Maybe she felt that traveling that distance to a foreign land with foreign peoples…
Do you celebrate the Sabbath? You know … that 4th commandment thing … I only found out that it was NOT on Sunday about 30 years ago…took me a while, but now….I can’t imagine NOT celebrating the 7th day – the day that HE rested…. Try it, you’ll like it!
The Story of Ruth is an interesting and valuable lesson for all of us in a general example, however if we dig deep into the ‘woman’ it’s a treasure trove! First and foremost, background. This woman named Ruth was a Moabite woman who lived during the era of Israel’s judges. At that time, the Israelites and the Moabites were enemies…
Many of our friends and family just celebrated the 3rd FEAST of the LORD (Lev. 23) called SHAVUOT. It’s an amazing feast day filled with a wealth of knowledge if one just takes the time to even scratch beneath the surface. One of the most interesting occurrences affiliated with this amazing feast day is that the Book of Ruth is…
These are just a few of the ‘men’ that stand ‘behind’ me who sacrificed so that ‘we’ could be FREE…. May we never forget those that have gone before, and the many that will sacrifice tomorrow! There are many more that are not in this picture, but these are some of my uncles that served in all branches of the…
Sometimes, when we feel all is lost, when all has been forsaken, when lonely and lost…we know…that “His EYE is on the sparrow”…. So let us sing because we are happy…because we are free! Because HIS PROMISES are TRUE!
So I was sitting here, just a thinking, and was musing on the ‘important’ stuff. The first thing that came to mind was my beautiful grandchildren and now I’m so blessed to be able to see my first great grand-daughter! Let me introduce her to you…her name is Amila Christine Karalash Each and every little soul that enters into this…