During this time of the year when we celebrate Pesach (Passover) or Resurrection Sunday (I rarely refer to it by that other term),one of the attitudes we should be having is gratefulness. According to http://www.dictonary.reference.com/ the word grateful means: "warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful" and when I think of a kindness received, I think of Pesach (Passover) 2008.....
It had been a month since my appendix had burst and I was NPO (hospital terminology meaning nothing by mouth-in short, I could neither eat or drink), and my midsection was a big open wound, so there was definitely no way I was going to be able to attend the annual CBS seder, which was tragic (since I love the fellowship and the celebration), but there was a couple-James and Elise Hubbard, who came to my hospital room, on the night before the seder and we had a celebration of the Seder nevertheless....
Now remember I couldn't eat the food, but that was not the issue, the issue was that someone cared enough to come and visit me and because of that it brought joy to me in that hospital bed.
There is an old saying "A joy shared is a double joy, A sorrow shared is half a sorrow", you want to double your joy and gratefulness this season? I recommend visiting a friend in a hospital who won't be able to share in the joy of the season, help out a family who has a family member hospitalized by maybe cooking a meal for them or being a shoulder to cry on....you never know...through your help you may be fulfilling the words spoken by Yeshua in Matthew 25:
31"When the Son of Man shall come in His glory and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory.
32And before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.
33And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
34Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, `Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
35For I hungered, and ye gave Me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took Me in;
36naked, and ye clothed Me; I was sick, and ye visited Me; I was in prison, and ye came unto Me.'
37Then shall the righteous answer Him, saying, `Lord, when saw we Thee hungering and fed Thee, or thirsty and gave Thee drink?
38When saw we Thee a stranger and took Thee in, or naked and clothed Thee?
39Or when saw we Thee sick, or in prison, and came unto Thee?'
40And the King shall answer and say unto them, `Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.'
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