Dear Friends, this post is actually from last year`s Sukkot Festival!! I am posting it now as we are coming once again to Sukkot. I apologize for my not posting for so long! And now as we prepare for the Fall Feasts, I am reflecting on the year before we enter into the new year of 5783 and realized that I had written this post and never posted it! I hope it will encourage you to get ready for Sukkot, and all the Fall Feasts!! It is now the last week of the month of Elul, a time of Teshuavah, and leading into a time for all God`s people to Tabernacle as One!!
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Note in the title, `Happiokai` means `Recital`
Every year my voice training teacher makes a student recital for her students, to share songs and encourage one another. This year the recital was postponed 3 times, for reasons you can imagine due to restrictions on gatherings. The third time when I checked the date on my Biblical calendar I saw that the date was to be on the first day of the Festival of Sukkot. I told my teacher I wasn`t sure if I could join. Then I realized, I could join IF we were able to celebrate the festival. So I asked her if we could celebrate the festival by having a Sukkah there and sharing about the Feast of the LORD and she agreed.
I was over joyed and as our commandment for the Feast of Sukkot is to rejoice before the LORD, I was already seeing that this was His hand upon the scheduling and that it would be a joyous time and a chance to be a testimony for Him and to share about Sukkot with my community.
It turned out to be a wonderful time and I made the Sukkah specially for the festive time, and brought in flowers and decoration. My singing teacher even contributed the Palm leaves for the top, from her Father`s trees!!
I look forward to sharing more of the Feasts and special times of the LORD in Japan, as we know in the days of Moschiach, all the nations will come to Zion to worship the King of Kings and the Glory of the God of Israel will be known throughout the earth!!
