Planning for Shabbat

I'm having a great week...busy...but great! :)

I've finished sorting my Israel Trip pictures and have been diligently uploading them every few days. It takes time to upload and caption them, so I'm spacing it out. I've also got all the videos downloaded to my computer...now to create a web page where I can share the best ones.

Then today, I saw on the headlines that there is an out of control wildfire near Haifa, Israel on the Carmel Mountains. I was there!!!! Less than 1 month ago (November 9th to be exact), we went to Haifa, went up on Mt. Carmel, and then drove through those mountains to reach Tel Meggido. It is so sad to watch the news reports, yet so real after having been there. Pray for rain for Israel! They have not received any rain for the month of November...due to working on dividing the Land (that's the spiritual reason why)...but they so need it.

My boss got me this really neat CD today called Maccabeats. I've been enjoying it this evening while syncing my iPad which was the last thing I needed to do to have my electronics back fully working after my recent computer reformatting due to a bad wifi card. Thankfully that was covered under a recall otherwise that would have been about $300 to repair it. Praise Yah for His provisions!

And now, we're beginning preparation for Shabbat. We're hosting a gathering for any Messianics in Ohio at our home this Shabbat, so I'm looking forward to seeing many of our friends... We'll have a Midrash on Spying out the Land as well as I'll get to share about my trip to Israel.