Our Rosh Hashanah/Yom Tiruot celebration was so special. I was so involved in what we were doing I forgot to take pictures. If anybody did take pictures can you send them to me?
We worshiped the King and declared who He was in our lives and blew shofars and danced and sang and ate and celebrated the Feast. God’s Mountain was filled with His Presence and His people.
God was so satisfied. I don’t remember a season in my life when I would gratefully wake up every morning so satisfied by Him.
Now we are in the Days of Awe, preparing for Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and therefore the Day of Repentance. This is one of my favorite days in God’s calendar. I love to spend it quietly with Him, searching my heart, engaging with Him as He removes things interfering with His love and His goodness. This is the day we get to thank Him for our sanctifying journey together, the journey where He heals and nourishes and recrafts us according to His Will. This is the day we get to honor Him for our Atonement.
We will meet this coming Sunday, September 24, at 6:30pm for a simple meal of soup and bread. Then we will enter into corporate silence where we will be corporately and individually seeking Him together for what He is healing in our lives. People are welcome to stay through the night. We will continue through the following day. Our silence will be broken by occasional times of sharing and then we will return to silence. Please come for as much or as little as you choose. Note for parents who want to come with children: this is a solemn assembly. If your children need to talk or play you can take them outside to run around but inside they must be silent like everybody else. They can draw or engage in some quiet activity but no noise.
We will end our time, after dinner on Monday, with a festive meal as we enter into the season of praise, preparing for the Feast of Tabernacles, the week when we live in Sukkoths, and let heaven touch our lives to the core.
Can you see the progression?
First, on Yom Tiruot, we honor God’s Majesty, His Miraculous Provision, His Isness. Then, on Yom Kippur, we repent before Him and experience His Atonement. Then, during Sukkot we celebrate our intimacy with Him, delighting in dwelling with Him, enjoying God’s Honeymoon with us.
Thus , every year we reenact our salvation and our invitation to live in God’s Home, on His Throne, in Heaven, humbled by the glories of dwelling with Him whom we love more than life itself, even while we are living on earth.
Please join us on Sunday, September 24, and Monday, September 25, to thank God for his provision of atonement.
Then, come again on Friday, the 29th, to celebrate the beginning of Sukkot with Beckah Shae.
408 Highway 912, Landrum. 29356.
Note: Do not use Apple Maps. It will take you to a house about half a mile down the road from us. Google maps will take you to the right place.
Shalom and love!
Wendy
FREEDOM 
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