Shalom, dear friends; “When the LORD returned Zion from captivity, we were all visionaries. Our mouth was filled with laughter, our tongues with joy, then the nations said: ‘The LORD has done wonders for those people.’ The LORD did wonders to us, we were overjoyed. Return us from captivity as the streams in the Negev. Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. Though he walks along weeping, carrying his store of seeds, He shall return carrying bundles of sheaves.”  Psalm 126 In ancient times these Songs of Ascent were sung by the Israelites as they approached Jerusalem for any one of the three great ‘travelling’ Feasts. It is also sung often today during feasts. Jay and I certainly have experienced the ‘visionary’ part, along with the sowing and reaping. I love the ‘Grace after meal prayers’ and a portion here for you to savour. “Have mercy LORD, on Israel Your people and on Jerusalem, Your city, and on Zion where Your glory dwells, and on the kingdom of David, Your Messiah, and on …

Shalom dear friends: “So put aside every trace of malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and slander and hateful speech.” 1 Peter 2:1 I am sorry to begin in sadness, but Israel is where I live. Thank you for sharing my thoughts, dear caring friends. Thursday night on Dizengoff street in Tel Aviv two childhood friends Tomar Morad and Eytam Magini were shot in cold blood, 16 bystanders were wounded and hours later Barak Lufan, 35, succumbed to his wounds from the shooting. The country is sobered by all of these attacks, including the 13 deaths last week. Israel is a family, nothing is impersonal here, nothing! When under attack that sense of brotherhood is undeniable. All grieve and pray. Tomar and Eytam had arrived only moments earlier to celebrate Eytam’s recent engagement. Barak, the third victim, was an Olympian athlete in the 2009 Olympics. The Palestinian from Jenin, Ra’ad Hazem, opened fire, spraying bullets far and wide. He escaped to a mosque in Jaffa and nine hours later was tracked down and …

Shalom shalom: Those two simple words mean, “perfect peace” and are the kind of invisible peace promised to bring internal quietness to one’s soul, mind and body.  “My peace I leave with you.” John 14:27 Well, this was the week that was. Without going into detail, we are left extremely weary and deeply fatigued in mind and spirit. I know, the warfare is intense everywhere. This is when the Still Small Voice comes by God’s miraculous Spirit. We pray in our native languages with knowledge but just as profound we pray in other languages we have never learned in school. They flow out, pleading the deeply profound mysteries of God. We become vessels interceding for impossible situations in the nations, and for souls everywhere. And yes, for ourselves also to be built up in our most holy faith. This is where I have been in the Spirit of God. He searches for those through whom He can intercede and weep in the tender mother-heart of the Almighty; speak mysteries of the unfolding supernatural power, speak …

14-15th Adar 5782 / March 18th 2022 Shalom Dear Friends: Why is it Pharaoh was driven to destroy all male Hebrew babies? Why did the mighty Xerxes order All Jews in his 127 provinces [nations] to be slaughtered? Why did Herod murder all Hebrew boys two years old and younger in Bethlehem after the visit of the Wise Men? And why was Hitler hell-bent on killing every Jew in Europe? This nasty historical fact is our living history, and many of us are still alive who lived through WW11. WHY? “Now Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews …obliging them to CELEBRATE … because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies and as the month which was turned for them from grief to joy and from mourning into a holiday, that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending choice portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.” Esther 9:20a, 21a, 22 Maybe this is the reason why Jews seem to …