Hope!

 

I made this drawing last night, before bed!  Its for the parsha  prayer project I am working on that I am trying to discipline myself to finish during this "inside" the home time.  I am making prayer sheets for each week to go with the weekly readings, and each one has two drawings on it.   One of the parsha I needed to make drawings for is Parsha Noah, and I just kept putting it off, and last night as I said, before bed, I just sat down at my "studio" table and drew this.   I felt like it was right and it will go as one of the drawings for "Parsha Noach".  And I felt that it was also for today!! The dove with the olive branch, God's message of hope!!

I "hope" it might speak to you today and bless you with a message from the heart of the Father!!

If anyone has a scripture for it, please share it!!

I have many posts I want to post, and have started a few, but somehow this is the one that is making it to the blog today!!

Blessings and Shabbat Shalom!!

Much Love

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Shayndel

In Remembrance of Yom HaShoah--Holocaust Remembrance Day

I am always full of words when posting but for this post I really don't have words but the more I go through the years on the Torah cycle the more connected I feel to the 6 million Jewish people and souls who were horribly murdered during the Holocaust and the importance to remember.

I am posting a page from my Torah Lesson for kids that I started during the time of quarrantine, and at the start of the lesson wanted to pause and dedicate our Torah lesson to those souls.  By remembering may it be certain that it can never happen again and may anti-Semitism in all forms be rooted out---pulled out from the roots---from our world.

Blessings and Shalom to all.

Love
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Shayndel

 note: illustrations are from the internet

Counting the Omer--Day 12

The LORD exists forever; 

Your word stands firm in heaven.

Psalm 119:89

Happy counting!

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Shifting to some inner work---Nissan Journal and Spiralling blossoms!

(note:  written/drawn  in the first week of Nissan, about 2 weeks ago!)

Nissan is the month of miracles. Its the month of redemption.  The month of springime!! As I walk outside under the cherry blossoms I know it is a month of LIFE.  Despite all of the news around us, or maybe from that and,  needing to be light,  I have decided to listen to what the Torah says and to who Yeshua is, and to choose "Life" .

I started  to  "journal" on this new year starting in Springtime, the first month on God's calendar, the month of Nissan.

I am taking this journey with prompts given by a "Spriraling UP" group formed  by "His-Israel", a site you can see on my sidebar and which  I think many of you have visited.  You can also find it HERE and for the Spiralling Up group if this post interests you to join in the "climb"!!  I started this "climb" on last year's cycle but only got as far as the second month, so this year I hope to go through the whole year which has just begun and currently in the third week.

 The first prompt is from a quote about Nissan as "eternally pregnant" and the second which we are actually asked to think of when we were pregnant and how that time of giving birth connected us to God.  It could be an actual giving birth to our child, or another kind of giving birth in your life like to something new in your life or in terms of someone you have nurtured or given life to.

I started out thinking of my pregnancy.  I  came to  live in Japan when I was five months pregnant!! That is a whole story in itself, but for this sharing I want to just share how I remember the first time I experienced the cherry blossoms in Japan was when I was nearing the time of giving birth, about 8 months pregnant, as my daughter was born in April!!  Maybe that's why I love the cherry blossoms so much and feel such a deep connection to this time of year!!

When I had the image for this drawing, it was about when I was pregnant with my daughter, and as I colored it I felt it also spoke of me today, pregnant with the new creation that God is birthing in me, and my creative "self" being ready to be released and come forth!!  How has this time of being inside released your "inner" aspirations??

I remember standing under the blossoms with my hands on my belly!! I remember feeling embraced by the delicate blossoms, and the peace and at the same time expectation to meet our daughter who was being made ready to emerge from her inner world, getting ready to come  into this world of springtime.  Today I took a walk under the blossoms and stood in that same spot, and made this drawing (above)  as the second "prompt" for this Nissan cycle.  I used the first "prompt" (top drawing) as a start, and expanded upon it, to bring the spirals of the water and blossoms into this view.   I think its not only about being pregnant with my daughter, but it also is about my new birth in  around this same time of year 6 years ago.  Once I can connect with the healing and renewal in myself, I believe I can be more fully there for my daughter and that as I am healed, I feel that the healing goes to the generations as well, and forward to her and the generations to come.  This drawing and process has been healing for me, and its a refreshment to go into this "inward" journey while we are for all intents and purposed on an "inner" time in our homes for the most part!!

And as I am posting this now, and reflections on giving birth,  amazingly my daughter is turning 21~~!!  Happy Birthday to you and many more, as you are becoming new each day and blossoming into the one you are made to be!

How has this time of being "inside" released your "inner" aspirations??

Blessings and Peace and Healing prayers for all! Some blossoms to follow!!

 Much Love,

Shayndel

ראו בנים - להקת הלל נשות השומרון עם מרב ברנר

Speaking about Tambourines!! 

The women are painting on Tambourines!! 

May we go out of Passover with Timbrels in a great expectation as did Miriam have for the great Deliverance!!xoxo Love, Shayndel

 Who is like You, O LORD, among the celestials;
Who is like You, majestic in holiness,
Awesome in splendor, working wonders!

Exodus 15:11

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Matzah Brei and Timbrels, A taste of Deliverance, and beginning the Omer count!!

In Your love You lead the people You redeemed;
In Your strength You guide them to Your holy abode.
Exodus 15:13

The seven (or eight) days of Passover pass by so quickly.   I am never quite ready to go back to "leaven"  until another week or so after that!   If you still have matzah, I invite you to make Matzah Brei!! Do you know Matzah brei?  A divine comfort food that is a little like "french toast", but with matzah!!  It will be something you can try while at home, and it will give you a taste of deliverance when topped with Charoset and Yogurt, for a special Passover ending to top off and round up the holiday.  Thankfully when one holiday of the LORD "ends" another is already beginning, and that is especially so at Passover, as we start counting the days, or 7 weeks, up to "Shavuot" in expectation.  These are the days which led up to the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai, and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room when the disciples would have also counted up to that day in great expectation.   The counting started at the second night of Passover,

Tonite we count the eighth day of the Omer.

In my Challah -cast this week I go out with my timbrels and Praise the LORD with the tambourine before heading inside to make the Matzah brei!!  Is there a connection between the two??  I invite you to take up your timbrels, to make Matzah brei,  and to watch the "Challah-cast" this week!!

Blessings and Love,

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Shayndel (and Joanne's Challah-cast Channel!)

Matzah Brei and timbrels, for the seventh day of Passover

Matzah brei with Charoset and yogurt!! Divine Passover comfort food!!

Parsha Shemini, Intercession*- to pray for "the whole world"

"Pregnant with eternity", the month of Nissan & Cherry blossoms

Intercession       
But like the Holy One who called …the whole world…, may …the whole world… be holy in all his/her behavior, because it is written, 
"You shall be holy, for I am holy."  May …the whole world… be holy, for God is holy.                      1Peter 1:15~16, Leviticus 11:45

                                                                 Then …the whole world…will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.   Proverbs 2:5                                                                                                              
I am the LORD, …the whole world…’s God, who brought …the whole world… out of Egypt; …the whole world… open your mouth and I will fill it.                                                   Psalm 81:11
     
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the LORD.                                                                                                                          Colossians 3:20

May …the whole world… be a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled.  …the whole world… must hold firmly to the trustworthy message in keeping with the teaching, so he/she can both encourage by instruction that is sound and convict those who speak against it.                                                                                                                                                Titus 1:8~9

…the whole world…, be submitted to rulers and authorities, be obedient, be ready for every good deed, to slander no one, without fighting, gentle, showing every courtesy to all people.           
                                                                                                                                                Titus 3:1~2

*from this week's AHAVA Parsha prayer sheet, Pray it for your loved ones, and for the whole world!!

Love and Blessings,
 ♡
Shayndel

Blossoms and Seder table and the month of Yeshua!!

Worthy is the Lamb! See link below for the Messianic Hagaddah I used for the Passover Seder

Charoset, a mixture of apples and nuts and wine or grape juice symbolizes the mortar that the Children of Israel used to make bricks in the time of slavery in Egypt.

On the Seder Plate, Each item represents something in the telling of the Exodus story and in the revealing of Messiah Yeshua

We drink 4 cups of Wine during the Seder, as per the words in the Scripture in Exodus 6:6, God's promises of redemption and making us a people unto Him. Yeshua too drank 3 of these cups at His seder, the 3rd of which has become the "communion" of the New Covenant.

3 matzah are wrapped in a "trinity" of Matzah! The middle matzah is the Afikomen, which represents the body of Yeshua and which is "hid" during the seder, and found at the end of the meal.  Yeshua Himself has been "hidden" from the Jewish people, soon to be revealed  with great joy and rejoicing for all!!  The Truth shall set us all free!!!

This year the blossoms  fill our inside and  the Passover spills forth outside.  On Passover in Japan the renewal and resurrection that is expressed in the Month of Springtime, Nissan, and the resurrection and Redemption that we celebrate in Yeshua on Passover, seem to echo each other as the blossoms and Passover spring forth in the month of Nissan.

I say every year that I can't wait until the Japanese people know their Messiah and maybe it will even be so that after this year when there are no people picnicking under the blossoms, that next year there will be a new gathering under the blossoms in the recognition of our Creator who brings this all forth and our Redeemer who will deliver Japan too in His mighty Hand of Salvation!! I can't wait!!

This year when reading in the Hagaddah, I also learned that Nissan is called "Chodesh Yeshuah".  Which means the Month of Salvation.   For the Jewish people too, I can't wait until they know thier Messiah.  Me too, I didn't know Him until six years ago.  It is so amazing that for 2000 plus years Jewish people know that the month is "Chodesh Yeshua" and yet we have lived with not knowing the truth of Yeshua who is our Passover Lamb, the Lamb that the whole seder is based upon and reveals.  As I observe the Passover year after year, as a Messianic believer reborn in Yeshua,  this reality of Yeshua as our Passover Lamb just bursts alive, as each element on the Passover table reveals our Messiah.

And yet most Jewish people, including all of my family,  still have not received this truth.  
I pray this Passover that all my Jewish family and all my Japan family will know this truth, and the truth will set Israel free and Japan free and all the nations of the world free!!!

BTW, why a Tambourine on the Seder table?? Its my original addition, as it represents Miriam the prophet, Moses' sister, and her great faith in God her Deliverer and the Saviour of her people.  She was all prepared and had "packed' her timbrels knowing in complete faith and believing that God would bring about a great Deliverance!  When indeed the Jewish people were led through the Sea of Reeds and set free on the other side,  she led the women in timbrels and dancing!!! May we have our timbrels ready for His great deliverance this Passover as well!

Blessings and Happy Passover, and a happy Month of Yeshua!!!

note:  the Hagaddah I have used this year and last year is THIS LINK, Messianic Hagaddah.  I'm sure there are many you can find, and this one is pretty long!! But even so, I have found it very good for teaching and for the seder!!! Recommended for all who desire to see how the Jewish Passover reveals our Messiah Yeshua, as well as the Revelations for the Passover we will all celebrate together when it is fulfilled in the Kingdom and we drink the fourth cup with Him, all together as ONE in Him!!!

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female---for you are all one in Messiah Yeshua.   

Galatians 3:28

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Happy Passover!!

 Therefore if anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation.  The old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.   2Corinthians 5:17

Its really happening, we are Passing Over, crossing over, together as One into a Glorious season of Redemption!!  It was a Miracle to get this Matzah in this season when the world seemed to have come to a stop, and yet God provides!! He provided the Matzah here to us and didn't forget.  He provided the Passover Lamb who gave His life for us and who longs for us to be as One!!

I'm always rushing into the last minute of cleaning the cabinets and clearing the hametz from the house and from my heart.  I really end up eating standing up in the last hours before Passover, just there is an urgency to this time when we remember how the angel of death "Passed over" the homes of the Jewish people, and how now we are "passed over" by having painted  the blood of the Lamb on our hearts.   So as we are this near to Passover, Just wanted to deliver one message of LOVE in Messiah and wish you all and your families and loved ones a  happy and healthy and blessed Passover!!

Love, 
 ♡
Shayndel

Passover 2020, the box even seemed to know its a special year !! I never remember seeing the stamp like that on the matzah box,  so plainly and clearly labeled with the year and that its from Jerusalem, Israel, almost as if to say, yes, even in this year when planes aren't flying and Japan and Jerusalem routes are cut off,as well as all the nations,  I will bring you  out and I will rescue you and I will provide!!

Passover Letter to God

 (Note:  This is another Post from "the Archives!!" , drafted after last year's Passover and posted now, just before Passover this year!! I'm finding it helpful on my own journey to see where I was from year to year at this holiday and how God is moving in our lives!! )

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank you for the Passover and for the commandment to eat Matzah for seven days.  Not only are your commandments not a burden, as you tell us so, but they are also an absolute delight (as you also tell us! smile smile).  LORD, when we see the Matzah that is broken and pierced, we eat it knowing it represents your body that was broken and pierced for us.  When we pass by the bread all around us in this week, it is not a burden to not eat it but rather it is a way we remember that we are people set apart for you.   When You meet us on your appointed days, Jew or Gentile, all One in You, we know we can meet others in You because they will be there too on those days to meet you, and then we meet each other too!! Thank you for the great surprises and people who you showed me to in that way this Passover!! Like the hidden YOU in Purim, like YESHUA who is "hidden" in the Afikomen, You  hide your Truth in a world of lies (they are being unraveled though , thanks to You, as you bring more and more Truth into the LIGHT!)!! And like children finding the Afikomen (the Middle Matzah), when we find the matzah we rejoice in the excitement in finding something that you have hidden and through which You reveal more of Yourself!!

When I was a child I liked that part of the Seder, but I never knew that it was my Saviour who would be revealed in the Matzah!! Oh LORD, oh Heavenly Father, this Passover is the most wonderful of all as You reveal more and more of Yourself!! OH how wonderful to see all the Japanese families and children who are hungry to learn your TORAH and teach it to their children!!  Being at the Seder table together with them and sharing the stories that are their stories too!!  Oh how when the world and even some of your precious ones are throwing out the "Old Testament" as Old and oh well, how wonderful to see its newness here with people so eager to know the God of Israel!!  You are the God of Israel and your plan of restoration is all in the Passover, from the Exile to the revelation of Messiah Yeshua to the bringing us all together in Him and the work that WE now have to do to bring the New Jerusalem down so we will all be at Your table together!! And this Passover we were, and we are!! One in You , Yeshua!!

I love you LORD and thank you for the freedom that comes in knowing YOU!!

Love,

Shayndel

Tambourine Blossoms and Passover Moon

On the fourteenth day of the first month is ADONAI's Passover.
Leviticus 28:16

Passover, the Jewish feast, was near.
John 6:4

 We can see from the moon that we are near the Passover!
As the cherry blossoms speak of Life, renewal, resurrection

 
to be continued....
 

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