Korech
Mar
22nd
2010
Beth has asked me to write a little something here while she is still in the hospital…just to keep the momentum up on the Matzoh Project.
They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with bitter herbs and unleavened bread they shall eat it. Exodus12:8
I am going to pick up where she left off… at the Korech, which is when they take the matzah and smear the bitter herbs on one side, and charoset (a substitute for lamb) on the other.
I read somewhere that they must eat this sandwich type thing in a certain order…first the bitter side, then the sweet side. They do this to remind themselves that though the period of slavery they endured was bitter, their redemption is sweeter still. Through knowing bitter pain, we can fully appreciate and savour the joy and sweetness of redemption in our Lord. At least, that’s something I’m learning these days.
This was the end of the first portion of the seder.
) Jenni is doing it of her own accord.
Melinda
This makes me think of the song “Everyday with You Lord, Sweeter than the Day Before.”
Everyday with You, Lord is sweeter than the day before, Every morning I will worship, every evening I’ll adore, ‘Cause everyday with You is sweeter, sweeter than the day before.
Life can be bitter, but so sweet. And no matter what life throws at us, heaven will be sweet. dang sweet.
Becky
Thank you for this “sweet” post. It blessed me. I look at this Website daily and think and pray for my friend.
Melly
The bitterness making you appreciate the sweetness does seem appropriate considering what is going on in your lives right now. Thank you for this post. I, like Becky, check this site and pray for Beth daily and I’m so happy that she is HOME now!
beth (20 birds)
thank you Katherine for doing such a great jobs for me, and for ministering to the Lord. And how right you are …. the sweetness of the Lord shines through all the pain, sometimes i have to stop complaining a bit to see and feel it all but it is always there