Purim Moon, Happy Purim!

 Chag Sameach Purim!

Happy Purim everyone!

♡

（Purim Posts to follow!)

Love,

Shayndel

Fragrance of Heaven, and a window to look up!

 Dear Yeshua,

There is a fragrance in heaven so beautiful

and you let us glimpse of it on earth.

You are marvelous, full of splendour, doing wonders.  

This spring may you bring 

us together with Your will for us here on earth, and may our lives blossom and bear fruit, 

may our families be saved and our hearts rejoice.

We give thanks to you always!

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Post script poem, To my beloved friends:

Peer through the lattice friends, He is there

don`t be fooled by a lockdown, it is a window to look Up!

For we can see through a tiny frame a small piece of His glory,  then He will reveal more of the whole pie! 

But if we just see the bars on the gates, they will be that which multi-ply.

So friends today we have a choice to gaze upon His glory and let him re-create our story!!

Let us chose wisely and not be fooled by a lockdown.

It is a window to look up!

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Dear friends, this `poem` is based on a true story, continued from the Plum tree I shared below.  

I can only see the plum tree this season from the lattice on the window of a gate from one side, and from another gate on another, and from my window even, though it is a `distant` view.  Determined to see the first blossom this season, as you can see in next post I did!

And then I also determined to go back in to see the tree in full bloom, and again, I did (post above!)!! There were two mejiro (birds particular to our locale!) and they were drinking the nectar from the plum blossoms.

My heart leaped for joy (do you know this word in Hebrew, Gil, it is the word used when the baby in Elizabeth`s womb jumped for joy to hear the good news of Miryam that the Saviour was to be born soon!). 

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Dear Yeshua,

Indeed our hearts leap for joy when we feel your presence near.

And indeed, you live in us so you are always near.  

Let us experience that joy in your presence.

Thank you for this month of ADAR, in which it is said to be the month of increasing joy! Help us to be ready for your coming and in eager anticipation for the Spring Feasts, all of which reveal You!!

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Dear Friends,

Blessings and AHAVA, Love,

❣️

Shayndel

First Plum Blossom and Tu B`Shevat

 

Come, my beloved ...Let us go early to the vineyards; Let us see if the vine has flowered, If its blossoms have opened, If the pomegranates are in bloom.   There I will give my love to you.        Song of Songs 7:12~13

 

The first plum blossom opened in the park next to where we live.  I am amazed how in Japan the plum trees correspond to Tu B Shevat, and then the Cherry Blossoms open at or just around Nisan 1 !  It has been my recent discoveries in Japan over the past few years how the seasons here with the blossoms so truly reflect the Glory of HaShem!!

This year I didn`t know...well, wait, that is not so...

I knew that despite the `lockdown` even on trees, that I would be able to see the first blossom of the plum tree.

I knew because God is faithful and He knows my heart.

Every year since I found out about the holiday of Tu B`Shevat, the New Year for Trees in Israel, God has been encouraging me to delve into His word about fruit and fruitfulness, and He has been sending forth the fruits from Israel, as I have often talked about on this blog !!

He also has showed me how the first blossoming of the Plum tree in Japan comes about just the time of Tu B`Shevat, which is the 15th day of the month of Shevat on His biblical calendar.  Why Biblical calendar? It is the calendar that He established with the Children of Israel when He set them free from the bondage of Pharoah and gave them the first month of Nisan.

Something else we can see about Tu B`Shevat, since it is the 10th month, is that we can begin to `prepare` for the Springtime and the spring Feasts of the LORD.  As the sap is beginning to come up into the trees that have been seemingly `dead` in the cold winter, we too begin to come into new excitement for the promised spring and the hope in the new season that we too will have a time of `resurrection` as the winter gives way to a new blossoming in us as well.    The springtime speaks of resurrection.  And so perfectly did God plan the death and resurrection of Messiah to be fulfilled in this very season of spring.  We can see it manifest in the creation magnificently when the fruit trees blossom , and then bear fruit!!

So back to my plum tree and the lockdown!!

Its a sweet story because this plum tree that I have been watching in this time of year is now in `shutdown`! Really, even the trees! We can`t access the park because it is closed off as they have a temporary location there now for testing, so there is a gate and its guarded.  But I have been asking the guard when I pass by, can I go in to see if the plum tree has blossomed?  And he started to get to know me, and usually he says no.  Then the other day he seemed to understand me and my heart to see the tree,   and just said `its too early, its not blossomed yet`.  Then yesterday, I passed by and he asked me, `do you want to see the tree? Ok, go ahead!`, (all in Japanese of course!) and he let me in!

And look (photo at top!)!! The first blossom!  I tell you, I got on my knees and cried.  And I made a blessing on the fruit tree (even though its before Nisan, it was just a prayer of thanks from my heart).

May it be a fruitful season for you and for us all and our families!

 

Much love,

 ♡

Shayndel