I am very happy to write today.  I saw something today that was a very special icing on the proverbial cake of my life. Tomorrow evening, Jews all around the world will begin the celebration of Pesach, or Passover as it is known in America.  I found out I was Jewish a little over three years ago, after years of being a Christian and a licensed minister.  This discovery in most homes would lead to a total existential meltdown in most households, but not here.  There's so much in the media and in society that highlights every and and difference between Judaism and Christianity. No doubt that there is a sorted and undeniable history that anyone who knows anything about the world must deal with, but much of those things were done in a previous or several previous generations ago.  Let me say again that anyone who used G_d as an excuse to kill is a murder of the worst sort, no matter what religious affiliation they mask it under, and those Christians who murdered Jews, said things against Jews, from Martin Luther to Jeremiah Wright--they sinned, plain and simple, and have brought a curse upon their congregations and those who follow them. 
Today was the opposite of those actions.  I watched the Pope attend Shabbos services at Park East Synagogue.   It was not only historic, but heartwarming and awesome, and I hope it fosters more and more cooperation between the two true faiths in the world--really, the one true faith

See, there is one God, as the Shema states, Shema Yisrael, Adonai Elohenyu, Adoni Ehad." Hear O Israel, the Lord G_d is one G_d, and he is our G_d.  This is the foundation of our faith, Jew, Christian, Muslim.  We all desire to serve the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.   There is one way to serve him: follow his commands, or mitzvot as it is said in Hebrew.  Those are as simple as Yeshua(Jesus) said: Love the Lord G_d with all your Heart, Mind, Soul and Strength, and Love your Neighbor as yourself. 

This is the answer to all the questions.  How do we fight terrorism? How do we solve the global economic crisis? How do we help others?   See the text above.

In a day when radical Islam is the great threat to our world, global worship of G_d is the cure.  The secular world and those who want things to fall into chaos have a vested interest in separating the great religion.  Did you forget the S you say? No, not at all.

Jews and Christians worshipped in the same place for 300 years after Jesus' death--the Roman government separated us, not G_d or the dedicated believers. There is a synagogue in Jericho that was paid for by the apostle Peter's grandson.  My pastor has been there, I will see it myself this year in person.  Jesus never wanted to create a religion named after is Greek title, no, he wanted to be the Torah completed in the flesh, and his followers to do so.

Look at Acts Chapter 15 if you don't believe me:  James, the brother in law of Jesus and leader of the Jerusalem believers said of the new Gentiles coming in:  "The rest they will learn, for Moses is preached in the Synagogue every week."   This is what Jesus wanted, and his apostles practiced.   It was the pagan Constantine who separated us by the Edict of Milan in 323 AD, outlawing and changing the Sabbath day to Sunday--the day he worshipped his pagan god Apollo.  This was the deathblow for the original followers of Jesus---and the Catholic Church was born.

The rest, as they say, is history.

What is now however is the growing movement for Christians to get back to their Jewish Roots, for Jews to embrace their younger brothers and stand with them politically and spiritually against the perversion of Islam and the radical element's desire to wipe Israel off the map.

Like I said before, I found out I was a Jew three years ago.  I found that out because my church, and my pastor, preach the importance of the Jewish Roots of the faith.  This sparked my interest in my family's history anew.  I had knew that my Spanish family was offically 'Catholic', but that they never practiced Catholicism.  I began to see pictures and learn things from my grandmother.  Her grandfather wore the tallis, ate kosher, never worked on Saturday--she remembers candles being lit on Friday night.  

Long story short, my surname, Martinez, was a designation for the Conversios--Jews that were forced to convert to Catholicism in Spain during the Inquisition.  So it was offical...but it didn't change a thing.

I had already began eating Kosher, celebrating Shabbos, praying with the Tallit, giving Tsdekah.  Now it was a heritage, not just a faith.

Many Spanish families share my story...and many Christians are understanding our story.

Passover celebrates the formation of a people, the death of slavery, and the freedom given by a loving G_d who began a heritage, a people, a nation.   That nation, despite the devil's attempts to kill it, has survived.  Those who have touched the apple of his eye no longer exist.  

As I watched the coverage, I thought of the revolution beginning before our eyes--the uniting of the one true faith, the one of love, the one of goodness, the one of prosperity, and the one of power.

This is the greatest story, and it needs to be told to a world that is consumed by darkness so often.

He is one G_d, and He is our G_d.