Rose Cross Horton

Today is February 14th and many people are thinking about love. They are sending chocolates, or flowers, or other special gifts to the people they love. I believe this is something we should be thinking about every day. Jesus said we are to, “love your neighbor as yourself.” In order to truly understand this. We must understand that God loves us. This thought took me to the story of Noah and Genesis 9:16 The rainbow will be in the cloud; so that when I look at it, I will reme

Today’s verse is from one of the Torah portions last week. Todd and I have talked several times about the Friday night Shabbat blessings that the parents do over their children. Every Friday night there is a blessing for the boys and the girls. Over all the children there is the Aaronic blessing. We have found that blessing our children weekly, and daily as they need it, encourages and builds our children up. There is power in a parent’s blessing. Jacob did this over the 12 b

His Promises are STILL true… Genesis 28:15 This morning in our Bible time, this verse stuck out to me. Our family reads through the first five books of the Bible every year. Each time another verse, or chapter, impacts me. This morning it was Genesis 28:15: Look, I am with you. I will guard you wherever you go, and I will bring you back into this land, because I won’t leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” (CJB) There are many verses in the Bible about God bei

Today we enter another Shabbat. Here is a verse about Shabbat. Genesis 2:3 God blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day God rested from all his work which he had created, so that it itself could produce. CJB This verse is a special verse for our family. In 2001 we began our journey of understanding Israel and importance this country and people have in the world today. Part of that journey has brought us to a new outlook on the day God gave us for