Last night, our family sat down together for a Passover Seder. We had a wonderful seder as a family. We celebrated with our good friends Hellene, Sam, Jeff, and Leo Orenstein-Anderson and with Larisa and Larry Gendernalik. We laughed and sang and rejoiced.
All three of our families have been through so much together.
Larisa and Larry lost their precious daughter, Valerie, in a terrible tragedy during Memorial Day Weekend 2008. (Valerie was murdered.)
Hellene's mom and my mom were alive last year during Passover; since then, both have passed away. All of us went through and were there for one another when my husband, Dan, almost died five and a half years ago.
Although we've been through a lot...
Like the Hebrews rejoiced when they were freed from slavery, we rejoiced. We remembered how Miriam and other women sang and danced after the Hebrews made it safely across the Red Sea.
We remembered how God delivered the Jewish people and how wonderful God truly is. We remembered that miracles do happen.
I am so very glad that we've passed the tradition of celebrating Passover on to our children. I also feel very fortunate to have such good friends!
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