Compost for the Garden. You decide if it’s fertilizer for your faith or if it’s just sh**.

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Shifting How We Gather This Week

We have had to shift many things in the last three weeks. Work commutes, school classrooms, trips to the store, and social gatherings that were normal parts of our lives have had to be recreated in new forms.

It is exhausting.

This week, yet more modifications are coming for many of us, this time in our religious lives.

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Bitter is the first taste of freedom

I didn’t know how much I liked horseradish until my first seder meal.

I eat it on the matzah. I eat it with the charoset. I eat it with the lamb. I can’t get enough.

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Walking Through the Midbar

I am no stranger to the wilderness. 23 years ago I was suddenly and tragically thrust into the wilderness when my father died unexpectedly. In one moment my world, my idea of God, and my faith were shattered.

I was suddenly faced with the reality that the worst can happen even when you have “done everything right.”

A blog post from Sarah Nichols, our new 40 Orchards teacher.

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