Hi My Friends,

​
Today is April 1st and what is commonly known as April Fool’s Day. I used to love thinking up pranks to pull on people and I have to admit sometimes I’ve been very successful. However, no one told me that life gets so busy when you’re “adulting” that you sometimes forget the date. Then when you do remember, you lack the energy to think up any good pranks.

After many years of struggling with burnout and chronic stressors, I am finally starting to get that playful spark back. Truthfully, I’m always excited when that spark comes out to play because it means that girl I enjoyed is still somewhere inside me, and she lived to fight another day.

Now this particular April 1st is very special to me. Why? Well, today is also the day that the Holiday of Passover (Pesach is the Hebrew word) begins at 6:00 PM this evening. I have to tell you something and I promise what I’m about to tell you is not an April Fool’s joke. Here it goes: I keep the Passover.

Yes, that’s right. As a Christian (born and raised), I keep the feast of the Passover and this is my second year keeping Passover. Now you may have mixed reactions to my announcement but please keep reading as I explain one of the reasons why I began keeping Passover. If not out of interest, at least out of kindness and compassion because it took me a long time to find my voice.

No matter what the world tells you, “busy” and “burnout” are not badges of honor. They’re labels that hurt us and condemn us to a life of slavery and pain. Those labels, and the actions that come with them, condemn us to a Martha-like life of rushing around in slavery to people like Simon the Leper or even Judas Iscariot.

Please don’t get me wrong. I am not condemning Martha and I understand her more than ever at this point in my life. Now that I’ve experienced some of that type of busy, I don’t even believe Jesus was condemning her. Rather, I think He was asking her to take a good look around her and reflect on why she was rushing around, what she was missing out on, and if it was really worth the price she was paying.

A number of years ago, I was forced to do some reflection when I landed officially in the world of burnout. Let me just tell you, it takes a long time to recover but it is so possible to recover and build back a beautiful life. When I embarked upon my journey to healing and recovery, I didn’t know how long it would take. I’ve always been able to bounce back quickly but not this time.

Even after doing all the things experts tell you to do and achieving some measure of success, I was still missing me. No matter how much I told myself that was okay because life changes as you get older, I missed me. I missed my spark, my energy, my happy positive attitude and I wondered if I was doomed to live my life as a former shell of myself. I also knew I needed to put boundaries in place, but knowing what kind of boundaries are needed and how to set them can be very hard indeed.

At the end of September 2023 as I began my planning for 2024, some interesting things happened simultaneously. While I won’t go into all the details today, let me just tell you that I sat there and thought: why not? Why not try God and His word and all I’ve read and see if His promises still apply today?

You know what I found out? Yes, you know exactly…I found out that His promises are still true.

There in September 2023, I sat down with my 2024 planner. I marked out all the dates of God’s Holy Days mentioned in the Bible and decided right there that I would keep them. I did it because I realized that rest, joy, gratitude and boundaries were a necessity to my life and my healing.So when I saw the promises that came with the keeping of those Holy Days, I knew I had to try them for myself.

So this letter is not about Christians versus Jews or what only applies to whom. This is about God and healing and how it can come from something as simple as keeping God’s precepts. After a year of keeping all God’s Holy Days, I can tell you that it brought more blessings and miracles than I expected. That’s right, I said miracles.

One of the greatest miracles is that my spark has reappeared and I feel more like me than I’ve ever felt. So I encourage you to try God for yourself, search His word and try applying some of His precepts to your life. It just might become the greatest thing you’ve ever done.

Wishing you a Very Happy Passover!

With all my Love,

Naomi

Meek Like Moses Founder

💚🤎🤍🩶💚🤎🤍🩶💚🤎🤍🩶💚🤎🤍🩶