If you and your family ever have a chance to experience this traditional Jewish feast, you should.

Really, there’s no reason why the Chrisitian Church shouldn’t ALL be celebrating Passover every year with a Seder.

Besides being Biblical, it’s been a great learning experience for our entire family (kids included).

What are your thoughts on why we’ve let so many Jewish traditions fall by the wayside?

Last Monday, hours after leaving a meeting with a lawyer to finish getting Insquare’s legal ducks in a row, Patrick received 2 promising leads on work after going a month without anything.

Coincidence or a little encouragement from God? 

Up to you to decide.

We’ve already made our decision.

Since we’re on the prayer topic, we’d love to have you join us as we pray (and teach our kids to pray) for the things going on around us.  We post requests on Derek’s Calendar.  You can read more about it here.  We’d love to pray for you, too.  If you have a request, you can tell us about it at our contact page.

Shocking…we decided to explore PJ’s answer. 

I love what he said next.  “We serve Him to praise Him and to show we love Him.” 

The next jump in logic was finding out how to serve God.

Matthew 25:40  makes it pretty clear–”whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”

So serving others is also serving and praising God.  That’s reason enough for me.

I was going to elaborate on how we are attempting (with lots of leaning on God) to raise children with servant hearts, but the kids are up and I’m out of time.  So it will have to be a different post.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming blogging.

Here’s the photographic remembrance of Ty’s first Grinch Reading.

In our family, Christmas wouldn’t be complete without the Annual Grinch Reading.  It’s been going on for over 20 years when my father and his best friend from forever bring their families together to celebrate the birth of our Savior.  Even with college, marriage, and moves, everyone seesm to find their way home on the night of the Grinch Reading.  Before the newest generation of little ears, we would all gather around at ages well above 18 and listen like we couldn’t read it for ourselves. 

One year (actually PJ’s first Grinch Reading), we had lent the book out and couldn’t find it when the we sat down for “the reading.”  Since NOT reading was NOT an option, we found an online copy somewhere and printed it out for Dad to read.  Really that was just a formality since we can all recite the story word-for-word after so many years of hearing it. 

So sacred has the story become, many of us haven’t even seen the recent* movie.

*recent is relative, of course.

Stay tuned for pictures of Ty’s first Grinch Reading.

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Child Welfare Information Gateway states, “over one-third of Americans have ever considered adopting (Harris Interactive, Inc., 2002; Princeton Survey Research Associates, 1997), but no more than 2 percent of Americans have actually adopted (Mosher & Bachrach, 1996). “

Have you ever considered adoption?  If you have adopted, I’d love to hear your story.  If you haven’t, why not?

While we’re on the adoption topic, we’ve been privileged to be apart of a new ministry called Grafted Families.  Check out our new website!