Strong’s H8666 TaShUBAh (teshuvah) means to return. I’m going to take you down a little journey of TaShUBAh, returning to the Father. Maybe some of you have a similar story.
I was working late hours at my hair salon feeling rather frustrated that between our jobs and my son’s school, I didn’t get to see my family much. With much prayer, we put our first home we’d ever known on the market. It started out as a little 2 bedroom 1 bathroom mice infested, golden 70s bathroom in its full glory, foreclosure. We had put everything into that home. It ended as a beautiful modern farmhouse 3 bedroom 2 bathroom complete with a clawfoot tub and sliding barn door.
Now this is the interesting part, our salon had been for sale for 2 years when we put our house on the market. It wasn’t moving. We live in a VERY small community and the market wasn’t hot. 2 months of the house for sale, bam we got offers for BOTH within DAYS of each other! We knew this was an answered prayer. Then came the worry, we don’t have a house to move to. A leap of faith to quit obsessing over homes for sale and our realtor calls us out of the blue to look at this property that’s unlisted. 5 untouched acres of alfalfa nestled in the hills, we decided this was it.
Fast forward, 8 long months of building our home, husband’s chronic gut issue flare up in the middle of trenching plumbing, living between our gracious parents homes, it was time to move in and have our own space. In this course of time, we had also pulled our son from school and he started 1st grade with me. That was a learning experience in itself and we quickly abandoned our curriculum for a less “school at home” approach.
I’m reading through the kid’s 2nd set of curriculum (which we no longer use) and they’re speaking of the “Jewish feasts”. We dive in for a little study in Leviticus 23 and my spirit lept. This passage was telling me they’re 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (Yahuah, The Most High’s) feasts, for ALL His people to partake in. I got so excited. I started asking questions at our home church.
“Did you know about the Sabbath day?” “Have you read the feasts are for all Israel, which we’re grafted into?” “Are the dietary instructions for today?” I wasn’t really met with the same enthusiasm I had. I was met with many questions unanswered and given some non Scriptural reasoning to why Christians don’t celebrate and worship Sunday and observe Christmas/Easter instead. So I just silently kept reading my Bible cover to cover, Genesis to Revelation over and over.
Fast forward to the shutdown in 2020, Easter and home church were cancelled. I said to my husband, let’s do Passover. We just did it. We were all in. Our first Pasach was absolutely beautiful and brought such meaning to what true “holidays” were supposed to be. More on Passover in this post.
The journey to teshuvah, has only begun, every day we should be asking for the ancient paths, His Ways, His Truth, His Light.
