Update May 18th 2018
Today is the 6th day of the 6th week of seven weeks. Today is the 41st day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.
So, only nine days till Pentecost!
Original Post May 18th 2012
25 Ziv / Iyyar 31 AD
Jesus’ friends have been hanging around with him, resurrected from the dead, this LONG!?!
When Lei and I had this Idea about a month before we started counting, 50 days seemed like nothing, I can’t remember now how many days we were doing it, like day thirteen? Could it really have only been 13 days? OK, maybe it was 20 days in, I was seriously surprised at how hard it was to post everyday, we keep saying we need to get on top of it and get some posts written in advance.
So, real early on, Lei started to run out of “appearances” to write about, and that is when I realized, “Jesus HAD BEEN ON EARTH—RESURRECTED–ALL THIS TIME.” I have read about the appearances in the gospels and I guess it just seemed like a short time, but, IT WAS FORTY DAYS, come to find out that is a real long time if you are paying attention, like I assume his followers were.
I know there hasn’t been a lot of people following our count, my brother Larry is the only one I know of, but does it seem like forever that you have been thinking “oh my gosh are they still doing that??!!”
How many times have you gone to the gas station since Easter?
How many times have you gone to the post office?
How many paychecks have you cashed?
So it has seemed like forever to me, while we have been “counting” but I’m sure, at the time, the disiples thought that is was TOO short of a time, maybe that is why when I read their writings I get that impression.
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