Days Two and Three...

 

   Early this morning HaShem's Great Luminary rose over the town above, where I reside, so it therefore also rose over me. How grateful I am!

    Since it was very early, and I was still sleepy, I went back to lie down to see if I would fall asleep again for a bit. Indeed, I did! I woke up gently to the sound of a mom's voice to one of her children downstairs and groggily got up and made my way to the sink to wash my hands - something I'm still getting used to doing. I think the Father must laugh at me sometimes when he sees me muddling around in the morning! But thank goodness He loves me and IS my Father! He knows I'm trying.

    I saw that I wasn't going to be on time for Shacharit, so I asked for an extra fifteen minutes, which was gladly accorded me, because we all need to ask for extensions at times. How fortunate that we as women are not time-bound with prayer. Thank goodness also for the faithful men who pray early every morning in minyanim for the whole House of Israel.

    I broke for lunch and a walk up the driveway to stretch my muscles before being seated again for Torah study. My study partner and I are working our way through Sifra - we are finding it very informative and quite interesting! 

    After about 2 hours I went for a longer walk, to get a few necessities from the shop around the corner. The people in the shop were my only real-people-contact today, but it was enough. Prayer and Torah study have filled my heart with sustenance.

       Later in the afternoon, a message came through from a friend who recently lost her husband and has 3 children. She can no longer afford the house without her husband and so has to move by the end of April. I asked how I could help and found a website that had something she was interested in - and she is going to look at the place on the morrow! I pray it is the place HaShem has for her and her family. I remember only too well the pain of not being able to find affordable accommodation for oneself and ones children.

    Tomorrow HaShem is making the planets align for me. My friend who has a shop here locally is taking me to the synagogue when she fetches her daughter at school and the gabai said he will gladly meet me there to look for a book that might be in the Reform library. It's a history of the Murrannos, written by a man (whose name I currently can't recall) who was allowed to spend some hours in the relevant synagogue where the true history was recorded. I do hope they have it.

    I'm so grateful that He has brought me into the House of Israel so properly. I am thankful to be able to pray the prayers that the first Jewish believers prayed in Acts. I am so blessed to be studying, reading, and learning the same Torah that was given to Moses on Mount Sinai, the same Torah that Yeshua learned and lived and taught. I am so thankful to HaShem.

    On Monday night we start the month of miracles, Nissan, the month we were redeemed from Egypt. The Second Redemption will be after the pattern of the first. When we celebrate Pesach on the night of 22nd of April, we both remember and also look forward to the Final Redemption and the coming of Mashiach. A thousand years to sit at His feet in Jerusalem learning Torah! I can't wait!

    I still have two studies to look forward to this evening and, of course, that special nightly phonecall to my grandson to pray the bedtime Shema.

    How blessed I am!💙🤍