"I told you so..." Is an expression reserved for the foolish ones who encounter truth and wisdom but press past it to learn the hard way! I have said it before and I will say it again, experience is NOT the best teacher! She is just the one that most...
Recently I have obtained an application on my lap top that has breaking news from the middle east, or news that somehow affects Israel, etc. And then there are links that different people post on Face Book! But the issue with this is that all news is...
(From Psalms/Tehellim 34: 12-15) Who is the man who desires life and loves length of days t hat he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of Adonai...
~ The Discipline (Mikvah/Mitzvah) of Joy during Sukkot (Tabernacles) Today is the first day of Sukkot, The Feast of Tabernacles. So, since I am on a personal learning curve (to catch up to this train/caravan which Gene and I have been following from afar...
I am writing this on the day after Yom Kippur, the Highest of High Holy Days (which is translated "The Day of Atonement", in English). As one who is new to the Messianic belief structure I find that I am in "analysis-mode" today. Particularly, I am analyzing...
Ha Yovel, is it today? When lack and debt move far away? Will it appear, oh can it be, that it will come today for me? As days of old, as we know well, one day Joseph came from his cell, and that dream, which gave him hope, to suffer patiently and cope,...
(The long awaited...) Part Four of the Motherhood Saga.... Back in the day, a country singer named Buck Owens sang a little ditty about difficult personal relationships called, "I've Gotta Tiger by the Tail". I think, if we change the words just a tad,...
Anguish. It is the word that most closely reflects how I am feeling at the moment. On the one hand I chide myself for being overly dramatic, self-pitying, and full of doubt and unbelief. And besides, I can think of at least five people by name and face,...
... Thirty Years and Counting! Our marriage was made in heaven! However, it was then forged in the fires of Mordor! It has survived power struggles - reminiscent of the "Ring of Power" that lives in our lower natures - to become a unity that glorifies...
A New Year! On the Hebrew calendar we are well into the new year marked 5772, on that other calendar we are in the second day of 2012. I don't think that the pagans meant to mark the coming and death of our Hebrew Messiah as the beginning of their calendar,...
"Genesis 32:27 & 28: "Then the man (angel of the Lord, disguised as a man?) said, 'Let me go, because it's daybreak.' But Ya'acov said, 'I won't let you go unless you bless me!' ... (Then, after asking his name the man said), 'Your name will no longer...
In this season approaching the Days of Awe, we give ourselves to the examination of the Ruach Ha Kodesh in order to be sure that our hearts are right before Adonai Elohim, The Most Holy G-d! And as we turn our attention toward Holiness we find, that in...
As I got into my devotionals this morning I found that I had skipped the last few days. I had read my Torah Portions, and a variety of writings concerning those, but my old faithful friend, My Utmost for His Highest had been overlooked as I got into the...
Another Sukkot Come and Gone The last but not the least of the appointed feasts, a chance to camp with G-d under the stars! To wine and dine and dance, with candles and romance, remembering how He has brought us far! In temporary dwellings, the covering...
"The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions!" (This proverb was taken from St. Bernard of Clairvaux about 1150, "L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs" translated more accurately, "Hell is full of good intentions or wishes"), But many folk...
"...to open their eyes; so that they will turn from darkness to light, from the power of the adversary to G-d, and thus receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who have been separated for holiness by putting their trust in Me." ~ Shaul (Paul),...
Recently, because of my search for deeper Spiritual Truth, I have subscribed to a teaching site which contains the writings and teachings of Torah from an Orthodox perspective. It is not Messianic, and so all that they propound does not always resonate,...
There is a burden for souls which is keeping me from my slumber tonight. But not just any souls. I am drawn particularly to intercede for souls that have been cruelly separated from the love of their heavenly father by a vicious lie. This lie can come...
"And I pray G-d your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless." I Thess. 5:23 My WHOLE spirit. My WHOLE soul. My WHOLE body. Preserved blameless. The ramifications and implications of this Scripture are staggering to me! The spirit man becomes...
I have noticed that every time Ha Shem wanted to prove the loyalty of His people, Israel, He hit them where it hurt! He made a boundary about food! Beginning in the Garden of Eden, there was ONE Fruit that must not be touched, then in the desert - after...
Avinu, (My Father), When the weight of cares are threatening to overcome Your grace, When the shadows pass between us, and I can not see Your face, It is then I bow in worship, it is then I sing Your praise, for it never fails to lift the weights, and...
"His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain." I Corinthians 15:10 Can I say that this morning with any kind of integrity? I have said it tentatively before, I have said it hopefully before, I have declared it "by faith" before, or by something...
I ts Purpose and Importance to Those Who Claim to Love G-d. I found this wonderfully clear explanation of "Torah" in an article from a subscription I get through email from Torah.org. Rabbi Rosenfeld eloquently writes; "...there is an important principle...
(A prayer/poem of devotion) Avinu Malkenu; Quiet the uproar in my head, the din within my heart! Draw me from the warfare, from the tumult, far apart. Then refocus my eyes, let me only see, The peaceful Kingdom of the free! Bring beloved correction, teach...
"From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him." Jn. 6:66 This is a sad commentary on the loyalty of mankind. We get all fired up about a movement, and there is free food or something that entices us to follow, but then,...
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