Passover Preparation

Here we are and passover is just before us! We had hoped to drive to MO to keep passover with the YRM assembly but as it has neared a long trip seemed more unlikely. With a house being prepared for sale, my brother's kids coming for a week long visit, and many other smaller interruptions. We use passover as a good reason to do some spring cleaning each year as we clean out the crumbs, leaven, and fermented foods. This year somehow most of the cleaning got put off to the last week so while we were spending the week with the children we tried to fit in our spring cleaning as well. Then if things are difficult enough already I got hit with a throat virus Thursday that knocked me off me feet for the day(I had fever,chills, faintness,weakness,headache,achy muscles, not to mention a swollen sore throat), happily for everyone I was able to work the next day but nearing the end of Sabbath I couldn't even speak above a whisper sooo I'm still rather speechless today but the house is quiet and peaceful since the children have gone back home to Oregon. Now in the next 24 hours we have to see if we can finish the spring cleaning and then it's on to eating delicious homemade unleavened bread for the next week, Yum!
Thank Yahweh for sending us Yashua as a passover lamb! HalleluYah!

To garden or not to garden?

Is that the question of late or not?! I'm sure that there are places all over where gardening is the last thing on people's minds but here in Moses Lake we have had sunny day after sunny day. The greenhouse doesn't even think of getting below freezing anymore even on cold nights. Sadly for the cats that used to live in there(I booted them out to the barn) I have filled most of the shelves with trays of seedlings. I started feeling a little anxious after starting over 500 tomatoes, 200 peppers, and several hundreds of flowers and greens. And no, I couldn't stop there when I ran out of starter pots I ordered enough to fill every crack and cranny of that greenhouse with starts...the only problem now is that when all those starts outgrow their cell pots I will have to transplant them into 4 inch pots so somehow between now and transplanting time I need to come up with a way to expand my greenhouse capacity by four times! Next week I plan to put up a mini grow tunnel made of 3 or 4 PVC pipes bent into half circles and covered with plastic. I don't know how many plant will fit into that but it will surely relieve the greenhouse of some of the expansion difficulties. Thankfully last year uncle Tony gave me nearly 5000 4 inch pots so I don't think I'll run out of those. Perhaps you could call me a planting addict. :D

So what do I do when I become overwhelmed by my own life that when it becomes so full that I don't think I can take anymore? Usually I end the day with a great big deep breath and I tell myself, "just one moment at a time, Yahweh will give me the grace to deal with this moment and each moment just one at a time." 2 Corinthians 12:9
"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Yahshua may rest upon me." So what Yahweh gives me is all I need. If it feels like too much, it's likely that I'm wrong because surely Yahweh is not! I'm not supposed to be worrying over tomorrow anyway. Matthew 6:34 says "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself." Sometimes just knowing that I shouldn't be worrying isn't enough to bring my racing mind at night calm down enough for sleep. This is truly where prayer and sometime focusing on a specific verse is helpful. One lesson I've learned from being a bit of a worrier is that no matter how busy, overwhelming, or painful life gets, the sun still rises in the morning and life still goes on. Yahweh gives me the strength to move through whatever it is that lies in my path each day.