Walking Therein

Posted By Jacque on September 2, 2010 | Category: Growing in His Grace, Journey In Torah, Oh Father, Help Me Live Biblically

What a joy and what freedom to know that the covenant of YHVH was fulfilled by Messiah and we can now walk in Torah correctly, lead by the Ruach-Spirit. We CAN keep the commandments, as YHVH covenanted with his people, without the legalism and without denying it, because of the sacrifice of Messiah and the presence of the Ruach.

We don’t have to argue about it, all we have to do is to get out the words of the Father himself and see where he said that “these are a permanent regulation for you, for all generations” and know that it was also for us, in our generation, too.

We can learn more everyday about the Messiah and his culture, the Rabbis’ words HE grew up on and what it meant to his fellow Jews and learn what he was really saying as a Jewish, Torah-keeping Rabbi. We can read about traditions that Messiah held to and which ones he said went against the commandments and were burdensome to the people.

We have access to all of this and can search the Father and his will for our lives if we are willing to look for truth and to accept that perhaps, as Jeremiah said, “we have inherited the lies of our fathers….”

May we all seek his ways and learn more each day so that we can walk as Messiah walked and be YHVH to the people.

I found a great excerpt from Restoring Our Lost Legacy by Dr John Garr at Robin’s blog, Heart of Wisdom. I was very pleasantly surprised at the responses to each and every objection I have encountered by Christians when it comes to Torah and “grace”. If you have any misunderstandings about “Grace and the Law”, and Keeping Torah, please be sure to check it out.

Leviticus 23
1 YHVH said to Moshe, 2 “Tell the people of Isra’el: ‘The designated times of YHVH which you are to proclaim as holy convocations are my designated times…. 43 so that generation after generation of you will know that I made the people of Isra’el live in sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am YHVH your God.’” 44 Thus Moshe announced to the people of Isra’el the designated times of YHVH.

Be sure to read in between the dots to understand what days and times the Father has appointed to us as “a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.”
Click here to read it in Leviticus 23.

Shalom~

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Posted By Jacque on August 31, 2010 | Category: Growing in His Grace, Me Myself, friends

My Mother sent this to me around December, I think. The Father stopped me as I read it and told me to take notice of it, as I don’t usually read Forwards. My Mother-in-Law sent it to me this week, and again, I opened a Fwd: which I never do…. Interesting.

A lot of things have changed in my life in the past year. I am a different person because of those changes. Oh, I still seek the Father, love him, love my family  and strive to walk in his Way… but, as I have tried to warn my children and encourage them in life: We are all always still the same person, just with more learning experiences: I am still the same person I was at 4, 10, 16, 25, etc… just different.

Here is the email. Chances are you have also received it.

‘The happiest of people don’t necessarily
Have the best of everything;
They just make the most of everything they have.

I Believe…
That just because two people argue,
It doesn’t mean they don’t love each other.
And just because they don’t argue,
It doesn’t mean they do love each other.

I Believe…
That we don’t have to change friends if
We understand that friends change.

I Believe….
That no matter how good a friend is,
They’re going to hurt you every once in a while
And you must forgive them for that.

I Believe…
That true friendship continues to grow,
Even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.

I Believe…
That you can do something in an instant
That will give you heartache for life.

I Believe….
That it’s taking me a long time
To become the person I want to be.

I Believe…
That you should always leave loved ones with
Loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

I Believe….
That you can keep going long after you think you can’t.

I Believe….
That we are responsible for what
We do, no matter how we feel.

I Believe…
That either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I Believe…
That heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I Believe….
That my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

I Believe….
That sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re down will be the ones to help you get back up.

I Believe…
That sometimes when I’m angry
I have the right to be angry,
But that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.

I Believe….
That maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learned from them and less to do with how many Birthdays you’ve celebrated.

I Believe….
That it isn’t always enough,
To be forgiven by others.
Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I Believe…
That no matter how bad your heart is broken
The world doesn’t stop for your grief..

I Believe….
That our background and circumstances
May have influenced who we are,
But, we are responsible for who we become.

I Believe…
That you shouldn’t be so eager to find
Out a secret. It could change your life Forever.

I Believe…..
Two people can look at the exact same
Thing and see something totally different.

I Believe….
That your life can be changed in a matter of
Hours by people who don’t even know you.

I Believe….
That even when you think you have no more to give,
When a friend cries out to you -
You will find the strength to help.

I Believe…
That credentials on the wall
Do not make you a decent human being.

I Believe…
That the people you care about most in life
Are taken from you too soon.

Needless to say, I still have a lot to learn…

Shalom to you and may you be blessed because of these words~

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Posted By Jacque on August 30, 2010 | Category: Journey In Torah, Life in Costa Rica, Q&A Emails

I have had several emails in the past few weeks(actually months) regarding our Torah journey and our move to Costa Rica – and I mean several. I promise you I am working on each of them. We are honestly trying to figure out this season of Feasts and also how to have an income – All praise to our King, YHVH, who has sustained us all these months with no job!!! But, that, in addition to life in general: home schooling, still unpacking, learning, etc. just life in general… I am working on these emails as I can. I will likely just post here the answers in full, so those others who are seeking will have a reference point also.

If you have questions, please shoot them off to me now in an email so that I can include them in my answers.  If you asked me months ago while we were packing, selling, purging and leaving, and I never replied… please re-email me and let me know…. I do apologize. Between being pregnant all of 2009, having a blogger party, putting up 1000’s of feet of fencing, working daily on our home, saying good-bye to animals, having Samuel, researching Scriptures, leaving my daughter and leaving our home and the States, then the transition here and troubles in all of that, well, I am right on time, I tell you!!!!! (however, that PDA in that photo would sure help, wouldn’t it! lol!)

My answers are also being slowed by the fact that I do not yet have my new laptop cord! Thank you to my sis who sent it off to me this week! We can’t wait to get that and the MagicJack so we can call the States! Woot!

Shalom to you! Thank you for the support and grace you give to our family! May you each be blessed!

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Posted By Jacque on August 29, 2010 | Category: Daughters, Heart and Home, Just For Fun, Life in Costa Rica, Living Learning Moments, A Dixon Home Education

We have geckos. I am sure everyone in a tropical home has geckos or something harmless like them that you just get over. Like we have Daddy Longlegs back home. The geckos were strange at first, but now we think it’s pretty cool. They also chirp-a sound you get used to and come to expect to hear. When we went to Nicaragua, the hotel had had the rooms sprayed to kill the mosquitoes, and even after only having been here a short 3months, I noticed the absence of the geckos chirping.

We haven’t gotten to the stage of, “Oh yeah, a gecko… hum-de-dum…” Or not noticing. We still notice, the children think it’s awesome, and they try to tell each other whose it was the last time they caught it or where it was last seen. and THEY KNOW too.

We interrupt this post for an important activity announcement: As I type, LucyLillie jumps up and yells, “It’s a LIZARD! It’s a big one! It moved!”. Now, she is insisting I need to get it for her.  Ahhh… Eric came in and is going after it… oh, he missed it. Sorry Lu! — ok, back to regular typing…

So, what are Hannah and Eric doing right now at 10pm? Well, if you give a child a lizard, you can be sure they will ask you to use one of your jars to go outside RIGHT NOW and find some bugs. You will say something like, “I don’t want bugs in my good jars; you need to let the lizard go anyway,” but they will soften you up with, “But I want to see how it eats Mom….”

Because, after all, life is made up of each Living Learning Moment the Father gives us, isn’t it? And they NEED to know how a lizard eats… So, that is what they are doing… feeding the geckos.

Don’t miss an opportunity like this to take a trip to the library or search the internet with them and check out all of the interesting information about whatever they have found to set their interests on.

Shalom!

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Posted By Jacque on August 28, 2010 | Category: Growing in His Grace, Me Myself, Oh Father, Help Me Live Biblically, Saturday Psalm and Praise Meme, Wisdom from the WORD

Shabbat Shalom friends!

YHVH is my Rock and my Redeemer. Without him, I am nothing. Without him, I cannot walk in this world set apart from its evil ways.

This is the view from our porch at Pook Rd in April 2010

Praise HIM. May my mouth praise HIM.

Shalom!

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Jocelyn made me a really nice icon to change the name of my meme to a more fitting, less pagan-origin one! I have been wanting to get back into posting my weekly praise, and I was hoping to get the icon on here asap. Others have kept it up a whole lot better than I have since we got here! Anyway, I don’t have my password for her to upload it, so it will hopefully be here next week! Thanks Jocelyn, and sorry!

Thank you for joining me for Shabbat Shalom! Praise. If you would like to read others’ thoughts, praises this week, please follow the links below. If you would like to join us for Shabbat Shalom! Praise, we welcome you! We welcome you to participate. You can read about the meme HERE. Please leave a comment with your direct link on this post and link back to Walking Therein in your own Shabbat Shalom! Praise.

Shalom!

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