Seasons Change

Life is full of seasons.

Some remain longer than others.

Some seem to go by as quickly as the wind.

But... seasons change...

And there is much to glean,

much to learn, and much to do

in each season... 

We have entered the season of extended family living,

among other various seasons that continue to change

in other corners of our lives...

This summer, we not only welcomed our adult daughter back home...

All of our ducks in a row :)

But, also, welcomed my parents to live with us...

riding around their new neighborhood :)

We have a full house! 

Easy? 

No.

Blessed? 

Absolutely!

Celebrating 16 years!

Baruch HaShem YHVH!

He is good... all the time.

Shalom!

~ Christina

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven

                                                                                                     - Ecclesiastes 3:1 

Hello again

The rich, vibrant red leaves in front of our new home

Wow. It's hard to believe it has been two months since I last wrote.

So much has happened. So much.

... Excitement. Contentment. Busyness. Rest.

Good-byes. Hellos. Leaving old friends. Making new ones.

Family. Friends. Strangers.

Long car rides. Various campgrounds. 

Fun times. Easy times. Tough times.

Mountains. Desert. Prairie. Lakes.

Rain. Storms. Snow. Sunshine. 

14 states.

The expected. The unexpected.

Exceeding joy. Deep heartache.

Dying of dreams. Change in perspective. Renewed hope.

Looking back. Looking forward.

Strengthened relationships. Lessons in faith.

 

....

Thankful to YHVH He has brought us here...

and what He brought us through to bring us.

He is good. He is faithful. He is.

Baruch HaShem YHVH!

- Christina

 O יהוה, Your kindness is in the heavens, 

And Your trustworthiness reaches to the clouds.

Tehillim/Psalm 36:5

Going and Growing... His Way...

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, 

neither are your ways My ways,” declares יהוה.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 

so are My ways higher than your ways, 

and My thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55:8-9

Abba reminds me of the above often...
for which I am thankful.
 

His thoughts are not our thoughts...

our ways are not His ways...

His are higher... so much higher...

so far above and beyond our own.

He put before us, again, a tangible reminder...
... as we, once again, began to contemplate and plan retirement
and settling here in California, where He brought us two years ago...

... yet, in a series of events, He has called us elsewhere...
again...

... not our thoughts... not our ways...
but His
.

I reflect on how something just like this happened 

just a little over two years ago...

as we were just about to buy a house and retire

... and received orders to go to California.

There was so much He was teaching me...

so much He is teaching me still...

and as I look back on all He did and how He lead us,

I am humbled and overwhelmed 

by the love of my Abba...

and how He works all things for good

to those that love Him.

And my heart fills with love... and praise.

 

 

... so we begin taking steps...

steps on this path that He has us on...

this time leading back to the east coast...

to Virginia.

... because His thoughts are not our thoughts...

and our ways are not His ways...

because He is good... 

He's just SO good.

His leading us to California will forever remain

branded in my heart...

for it is here that He opened my eyes ...

here where He removed the veil...

here He wiped away the scales...

where He, in lovingkindness and in His perfect timing...

 

led me ... and restored me... to His Torah...

 

... and changed my life...

for ever

... I look ahead with hope...
and with thanksgiving...

Baruch HaShem YHVH!

"All the paths of יהוה are kindness and truth, 
To those who guard His covenant and His witnesses."
Psalm 25:10

Welcome

You show me the path of life;
In Your presence is joy to satisfaction;
At Your right hand are pleasures forever. ~ Psalm 16:11

About a year and a half ago, something happened.
Something that would rock my world, challenge my faith,
shake all that I ever knew and believed to the very foundation,
and would forever change my path of life.

What was that something?

Our Creator, Abba YHVH, full of compassion and favor,
patient and great in kindness and Truth,
opened my eyes to His 7th day Sabbath...
and, very shortly afterwards, to His Torah.

He showed me to His path of Life.


The Torah is life

"Set your heart on all the words with which I warn you today,
so that you command your children to guard to do all the Words of this Torah.
For it is not a worthless Word for you, because it is your life...
Deuteronomy 32:-46-47


"Do My right-rulings and guard My laws, to walk in them.
I am {YHVH} יהוה your Elohim.
and you shall guard My laws and My right-rulings,
which a man does and lives by them. I am {YHVH} יהוה."
Leviticus 18:4-5


The Living Torah {Yeshua} is Life

"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with Elohim, and the Word was Elohim.
He was in the beginning with Elohim.
All came to be through Him, and without Him
not even one came to be that came to be.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."
John 1:1-4

"{Yeshua} יהושע said to him,
“I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life..."
John 14:6


The Living Torah {Yeshua}{The Life} 
walked in the written Torah {the way of life},
and instructed His taught ones, likewise, giving us The example.

"For Messiah is the goal of the ‘Torah unto righteousness’ to everyone who believes.
For Mosheh writes about the righteousness which is of the Torah,
“The man who does these shall live by them."
Romans 10:4-5

"And by this we know that we know Him, if we guard His commands.
The one who says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar,
and the truth is not in him.
But whoever guards His Word, truly the love of Elohim has been perfected in him.
By this we know that we are in Him. The one who says he stays in Him
ought himself also to walk, even as He walked."
1 John 2:3-6



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"...in that I am commanding you today to love {YHVH} יהוה your Elohim,
to walk in His ways, and to guard His commands, and His laws, and His right-rulings.
And you shall live and increase, and {YHVH} יהוה your Elohim shall bless you
in the land which you go to possess...
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. 
Therefore you shall choose life, so that you live, both you and your seed..."
Deuteronomy 30:16,19


His Words are life.
The Living Word is Life.

I'm learning to walk in Torah... the path of life...
following the Living Torah... Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

I choose Life.


Shalom!