Our first passover feast…

Last night, we experienced our first passover feast with some fellow seminarians.  I want to write about it, but I honestly feel speechless.  Our friends, who hosted it,  have been doing this for a few years now, and decided to carry on their tradition here at Covenant, and share it with some friends.  We are so inspired!  It was so well put together.  I can’t even describe it.  And, what is so awesome about all of this is to see how God led our family.  Yesterday, I had a few recipes to prepare for the feast, and I decided to let Gage help me in the kitchen.  I am so impatient, and usually don’t even let him help me with cooking.  So, yesterday, I decided to make it part of school, since I had so much that I needed to do.  He did so well helping and I was so proud of him.  As we were eating at the feast, I began thinking about how neat it was that yesterday just happened to be the day I chose to let Gage help.  It was so fitting!  From what we read about in the bible, wouldn’t you picture all of the kids in the family helping prepare for the passover meal?  During our feast, Gage was given the honor of reading 4 questions, that were then answered by all of us (we were reading!).  He felt so included, and really special b/c he was the only kid there.  All of this was so good for him.  He is such a tactile learner, and this experience allowed him to “act out”, taste and touch all that we read about in scripture.  It made it real for all of us, but especially for Gage.  This morning, after he ate, I told him to go get started on his “list” of things that he has to do every morning before we start school.  (He got tired of me telling him to do the same things every morning, so I wrote it down, and now I just have to say “go do your list”).  He stayed back there for a long time and it was really quiet.  I decided not to bother him, and after a while he came out in the living room and grabbed “The Child’s Story Bible” by Catherine Vos (awesome) and went back to his room.  He stayed in there for an hour reading!  I was amazed.  This child does not read unless I make him, and he chose to read his bible on his own!  Last night was extremely significant for all of us, but especially for Gage.  I am so filled up with thankfulness today.