“Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste, so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.”
It is difficult for us to relate to this, as we are fortunate to have not grown up in a place of slavery. We did not need to flee our country, as we live in a country that attempts to offer equal opportunity and to meet our needs, as opposed to impose affliction. It is be no means perfect, but it wasn’t always as it is today. In the same way, the generation of Israelite adults will be raising their children in a land and time that is also different than their parents.
The point in today’s reading was remembering what God did. Not just remembering, but remembering all the days of their lives. The process of celebrating The Passover and the various Feasts would have been an interruption in their daily lives along with a change in what they ate. This would have required purposeful actions unlike other days of the year.
This challenged me to question if I give the proper thought required into what God has done for me?
Lock Your Wings 
Taking the time to reflect and celebrate is important. I think it goes along with our discussion on weekly communion. If it’s done weekly, and quickly, it’s not as significant. These festivals were just three weeks of the year and a time to reflect on God’s mercy and provision. To set aside time to remember that is important. Would Christmas or say a birthday, feel as important if it was celebrated in the same intensity every day?
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