Several years ago Mike and I got to watch a Jews for Jesus presentation of a Passover Seder from a Messianic, or Christian, perspective. We were just enthralled by the symbolism and completion of it all, so when we saw a book they were selling to help families have their own Passover seders, we snapped it up. We started having our own family seder right away. The girls were still so small that we simplified it quite a bit, but have added a little each year so that by now we do almost the whole thing. There are some years we don't get to do it at all, but we've done it often enough that Rebecca will ask, "When do we get to sit on our pillows to eat, and drink sparkling grape juice?"
Last Saturday night our home school group got together at one of our local churches for a seder led by the pastor, one of our home school dads. Mike was out of town, but my Mom was visiting! So we had an all-girl table.
A lot of work and preparation goes into these, so it was nice to just have to set up the table and show up! This year the part that meant the most to me was the "afikomen"--a piece of matzo that is taken out of the middle of three pieces, broken, hidden, then found again and eaten as "dessert." It is what Jesus was holding and talking about when He said, "This is my body, which is for you..." He is sweeter than the sweetest honey.
It made the Lord's Supper at our own church the next morning even more meaningful.
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We've done that three times over the years and it adds so much to the meaning of Passover/Easter. He is our Passover Lamb who takes away the sins of the world...
the year we lived in California, we got to observe Passover with my Jewish S-I-L. Of course, I was in my first trimester of pregnancy and everything I put in my mouth made me sick, but it was a very neat experience. The Passover..not the puking!
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