“You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:15-16)
“For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.” – ( J. R. R. Tolkien)
“And know, of all the words I have found, kindness is the most powerful. It can transform the world. At the end of my days, the only thing I will regret in my life are times when I was unkind.” ― (Karyn D. Kedar, Omer: A Counting)
“He is not here; He has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: The son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.”
“It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.” (Francine Rivers)