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Eden and I are back in My First Message for our daily devotions. I was going to begin at creation, but she insisted on the cross. She is fascinated by the death and resurrection of our Lord & Savior Jesus.  Praise God!  May she truly embrace and be embraced by this reality.

With Sunday's sermon at our local congregation on "Jesus Washing the Disciples Feet" (John 13), I used that as an entry and picked up the story at "The Last Supper" (Matthew 26). We've moving along at a fairly good pace.

Our longest conversation has been regarding the Feast of Pentecost (defined in a sidebar as "A festival in Israel where people gave thanks to God for a successful grain harvest). As I gave the illustration of the importance of the flourishing of local crops in relationship to support of family and the blessing of food on the table, the concept clicked for her.* May each of us rejoice in God's gift of the coming harvest, provision for new year, and the opportunity to sacrifically share out of our plenty every step of the way.

*Comment:  No doubt one of the joys of being surrounded by fields and farms is the ease of children in connecting to "Biblical life, story, and parable" :-)  Keep in mind that as we visit campuses, towns and cities I remind my children of the coming of the "New Heavens and New Earth" ... "the City of God."