This year, Easter Sunday fell on the Sunday after Passover, and so I decided to visit the Garden Tomb. However, parking was horrid, and my friends and I missed the 7:30 am service. Thankfully, we finally found a place to park, had breakfast in a hotel near the Garden Tomb, and were able to attend […]
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Passover: The Eye of the Storm
It is not very often that Easter Sunday immediate follows the Passover Seder. This year the Seder is Friday evening, and so this Easter is particularly special. The weather, though, has been weird, and today it is cold and rainy. As I was driving today, running some last-minute errands, I was reminded of a new […]
Easter for Christmas
I learned something new this Christmas season—how to openly enjoy and grieve the holiday, while totally rejoicing in and enjoying the holiday. I write about it here in this guest blog post that I was asked to write: The Year I Forgot About Christmas. I hope you will take the time to read it, since this […]
Passover Meditations
Car washed? Check. Laundry done? Check. House straightened up? Check. Cat sound asleep between computer screen and keyboard? Check. Oh, wait, it’s Passover… did I get rid of all the leaven in my house? Hmmm. Can I claim the Fifth Amendment? My answer will incriminate me. One of the greetings here in Israel is, have […]
My City of Refuge
I have always found the idea of “Cities of Refuge” interesting (Numbers 35:9-34). Yesterday, someone mentioned something about the cities of refuge which got me thinking. As I’ve meditated upon it, I have found a far deeper meaning in these cities which seems particularly appropriate for this Passover/Easter season. It all began when the speaker, […]
