The fighting stopped, and then something deliberate happened: "on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it…The fighting stopped, and then something deliberate happened: "on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness." They made it. Joy did not just happen to them, they gave it a place on the calendar. When God brings you through something, do you mark it? Or does the relief slip by unnamed, unfeasted, forgotten by spring?
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