So I had an interesting conversation with my mother the day after the “Birthday of the Sun god”.

Here I was, it’s they next morning, thinking ‘okay, we got past it.’ I call my Mom as I typically do, asking her normal daily questions. She then asks me, “So do you think maybe we could get together on another day in the year and give gifts?”

I thought, I guess so. Even the Father gives good gifts. Then, she was like “I could make a day of it! Decorate the house…”

“Mom, what do you mean, decorate the house?” Moved on with conversation.

I tried to gently remind her why we don’t celebrate Dec 25th anymore. I said something to the effect of, it’s not pleasing to Yahuah and we are keeping His feasts now.

Then all of a sudden, she jumps into how people who celebrate the 25th are not devil worshippers, blah, blah, blah. I said, “I know Mom. They don’t realize they are doing it, but there’s still truth behind that day and meaning.”

So THEN… she launches into how she doesn’t believe in a Biblical Flat Earth. (To be honest, I’m not certain what y’all believe her on this subject). But I have tested curvature in North Carolina and all I can say is their math doesn’t work. Anyway, I told her about how in Genesis that it says firmament. Even read her the first 5 days of creation.

Only with the sole purpose of showing her how science says, “the sun is 1.5 billion years older than the earth…. But scripture tells us the sun, moon, and stars were created many days after earth.”

I thought, surely just this simple thing could cast doubt in her trust of NASA and science.

THEN… it’s like she was having a conversation with someone else and I was the spectator. She begins to rant about, “If that’s what the Bible really says, then I just can’t believe that book. I haven’t read it because I’m afraid of what it will say. And I am just not ready to not believe it.”

She kept telling me not to get mad, I was cool as a cucumber mind you. Honestly, I didn’t take anything she said personally, all I had was an overwhelming amount of compassion. I can see the deception she is under, the willful blindness she has. I imagine that Messiah must have felt this for all the people he met but like a million fold. It was a taste for me.

So we hang up, because she needed to cool down. And THEN…

She calls me back, “I just gotta say this! I believe that Jesus died for me on the cross and that I’m going to Heaven when I die. If that’s not the cause then I guess I’m going to Hell. Maybe if what you say is right, we serve a much more finicky God and not nearly as many people are going to make it. I guess that’s fine.”

I didn’t correct her. Crazy thing is my Mom & Dad haven’t been to church in nearly 3 decades, but all that demonic doctrine is so baked in, it’s crazy and heartbreaking.

So I gently reminded her, “Eric and I are only trying to live what the scripture says. We are told to love him with all of our heart, mind and strength. That’s why we honor and keep His sabbath, eat what He says is food, keep His feasts…”

She INTERRUPTS…”See! What you are saying to me is INSANITY! It’s just insane! You can’t possibly do those things! The only person who could was Jesus!”

Never mind the fact… that we ARE doing those things…

Anyway, it was the most heartbreaking and eye opening conversation I’ve ever had. I love my mother and we spent the past two days together and neither of us spoke of that conversation. She has no idea the depth of the words she spoke; how true they were.

My oldest could hear the conversation that day and you know what he said, “Doesn’t the scripture say that few will make it?” It was rhetorical.

Anyway, if you read this, apologies for the length. Just wanted to share in a place I’m certain we all can relate. You want people to see the truth so much more than they want to see it. May Yahuah open their hearts and minds, before it’s too late.