Holidays and Holy Days

How do you show love and honor to someone special in your life? Do you take them out to dinner, buy them a gift, or treat them to a day out on the town?

If you wanted to give someone a gift of love, how would you go about it? Would you take someone who hates roller coasters on a roller coaster ride? Would you bake someone a chocolate cake if they were allergic to chocolate? Would you write them a check for a million dollars, knowing you only had 10 dollars in your bank account?

Yes, counting Pentecost the "wave sheaf way" surely does have very real personal meaning for us.

After three days and three nights in the grave, Jesus was resurrected late on the weekly Sabbath afternoon, near sunset. That coincided with the practice of the priest, who cut a sheaf of ripened barley grain and waved it in the Temple on the morning of the first day of the week, the day we call Sunday. Hence the name, “wave sheaf.”

Last night, I went to bed at 4 A.M. and I got up at 7:30 A.M. But I feel pretty rested. A lot of the time, I am enjoying life so much, that I don't want to go to sleep. It will be so great when we will, one day, never get tired again. We can barely imagine how great that time is going to be.