So ironic that Passover is being celebrated the same week as Holy Week commemorating Jesus journey to the cross to set us free from the burden of another form of slavery, sin. Passover is a week long festival commemorating the emancipation of the Hebrew people from being slaves to the Egyptian.

As a child I remember the only way for me to understand what the Passover was all about is by watching the movie the Ten Commandments staring Charlotte Heston in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic movie. The scene I recall is the cloud of smoke representing death in the sky covering the moon slowly making its way to earth. Moses and all his family seated at the table eating and a little boy asking Moses, “ why is everyone afraid, why this night is different from all others?” And you could hear the cries and screams of people outside. Moses looked at him and said, “because this night the Lord our God, would deliver us from the bondage of Egypt.” Then you see the smoke on the ground as Joshua enter the house, opens the door and says, “ it is not forbidden to look upon the breath of pestilence and see for it is here.” Moses says to the boy, “do not look” and then proceeded to tell Joshua to “close the door and let death pass.” This is how I became to know and be interested in the celebration of the Passover.

One world, with one God who has love for all of humanity with so many religious beliefs in him that no matter what, it all leads right back to the monotheistic God. The God who created all things and his in control of it all, lest we forget.