How to Prepare Your Heart and Home for the Fall Feasts

If you're anything like me, you used to prepare your home for the holidays. Now that I've come into the truth I've discovered a whole new excitement for our Holy Days.

As Mommas, there are usually so many details we must plan for like menu plans, packing camping supplies, washing guests bedding, and deep cleaning our homes. (Keep an eye out for my inspirational deep cleaning video of things I like to do to get ready for the High Holy Days.) But often times we get all excited about the fall feasts, especially because we get to go camping, but we are not truly ready to celebrate them. Below is a simple list to help you prepare.

1. Compile a music playlist to help you cry out to the Most High. He wants to hear our pleas for help. Only then can He save us. "In what place [therefore] ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us." (Nehemiah 4:20)

2. Thank the Most High for His atoning sacrifice. Atonement is defined by Easton's Bible Dictionary as "the state of being at one or being reconciled." Take the time to ask Him for forgiveness for straying away from Him, for not being faithful to your marriage vows to the Most High. Express to Him your deep sadness, that should overwhelm you, when you loose connection with Him. Beg to be reconnected and have at-one-ness with Him. Thank Him for the gracious gift of atonement.

3. Thank the Most High for your home. We get all excited to go camping every year with all the tents, food, hikes, gorgeous views, songs, and crackling fires but we forget the mosquitoes, the bathroom hikes in the middle of the, and the pain in our backs when the air mattress goes flat. Pretty soon, the hardships of camping will come to you and you'll want to complain. But stop! Don't! Remember what happened when our ancestors of old complained? They got stuck in the desert for 40 years and died there. Let's not repeat the same decisions. Let's prepare now to be grateful and thankful for our homes.

4. Clean your house. Clean your house, prepare it like you would for a special guest. The Most High is coming to visit you.

5. Prepare a feast. Take the time to make the feasts special (Check out my family's Feast day celebrations on my IG Highlight called Holy Days) by preparing meals with delicious food that you and your family can look forward to every year. I don't like to use the microwave or stove anymore on the Shabbat or High Feast days, so I try to create menus that are simple and easy to keep warm in a crockpot.

Enjoy the Fall Feasts and remember that our freedom is near at hand.

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