Sukkot 2013 - Over and Out

This passing week of Sukkot has been a wonderful time of fellowship with those who could stay the entire time, as well as many others popping in for a visit or a few days here and there.

How blessed are we to be able to come together with a few like-minded disciples of Yeshua and celebrate the ways and instructions of YHVH.

I've thrown together a few photos from Christine's camera to give you a brief overview of our activities:

We were blessed to have 13 lambs born over the past few weeks so they required tagging and vaccinating.

Now when you leave grown men together in a room with nurf guns it's bound to get a little ugly.

A highlight of our time together is always the "Hebron Follies", where young and old alike are given the opportunity to delight this captive audience. Our MC for this year was Christine and she is a natural so will probably retain this role for many years to come! Unfortunately she was also the chief photographer for the week so I don't have a photo with her in it either.

The other annual Sukkot event is the game of cricket by the dam. Lord's cricket ground would not have a more spectacular view, nor on field entertainment.

Visitors and excited little faces ....

For me, entering shabbat together is always a delight. Our expressions are a little different from family to family so it's such a blessing to be able to enter into shabbat as a community at times like this.

As our hearts are continually focused on the coming again of our Messiah Yeshua we are being moulded and guided by the Spirit of YHVH. It's a joy and blessing to be led on the path of observing Torah and embracing the ways of our Creator!

Nehemiah 10:28 "The rest of the people, the cohanim, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Torah of YHVH, along with their wives, sons and daughters, everyone capable of knowing and understanding, ³⁰⁽²⁹⁾joined their kinsmen and their leaders in swearing an oath, accompanied by a curse [in case of noncompliance], as follows:

“We will live by God’s Torah, given by Moshe the servant of God, and will perform and obey all the mitzvot, rulings and laws of YHVH our Adoni".

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