Jay & Sarha's Engagement!

On Sunday evening, 4/26/09 my sweetheart Joseph James Cavallaro proposed to me in front of many loved ones at a gathering at our Rabbi (Pastor) Henry's house!!! We are so thrilled and can't wait to become husband and wife. We don't have a date absolutely set in stone yet but we are looking at sometime in November. Here is our very funny and adventurous engagement story!!!

The "special date":

Jay told me over a week ago to not plan anything for Sunday, 4/26 because he was going to take me on a special surprise date. So, on the beautiful very summer like spring day he picked me up and we headed out, 1st stopping at a very popular coffee shop called "Marylou's Coffee" where we both had never been. Yummy! And the place is so cute...looks like a little castle inside! :-) Then we drove up to the (original, haha) destination......A CARNIVAL!!!!! Jay knows that I love carnivals and he had found one weeks ago in the next town over. Well, we got there to find out that it was very small with about 5 rides of which we BOTH get sick on. And to top it off he had set his heart on proposing to me on a romantic ferris wheel ride. Well, there was no ferris wheel because it had broke down, DOH!!! He was heart broken and looked for other carnivals to take me to but there either weren't any going on that day or they also didn't have a ferris wheel!!!

So he then wanted to take me to Blue Hills (a beautiful reservation that we frequently go hiking in) for a nice romantic walk. He was trying to find a special rock that we found when we were hiking in the fall that had "LOVE" painted on it. Well after 3 attempts of trying to find the rock we ended up lost in Blue Hills for 2 hours, hot, exhausted, dehydrated, and here I was in a skirt and flip flops.....not very good hiking attire! We were so frustrated and took turns along the way as to who was having the worst attitude! At one point we sat down on a small cliff like rock to rest and when we got up I slipped and almost fell off and Jay caught me! I screamed and cried hysterically and said, "Can we please just get out of here and go to Henry's already!?!" Oh, it was so miserable!!!!! Poor, poor Jay, he tried so hard to make it a special day! So, we finally found our way out and got back on the main trail, that is after having a run in with a snake and racing past it as fast as we could! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Relieved to be literally "out of the woods" we talked about the lessons we learned from God while lost.....

Jay: "I need to always LEAD you and NEVER leave you behind."
God put this verse on Jay's heart: "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." Proverbs 14:12

Sarha: "I need to TRUST you in every situation and stick by you regardless of how I may feel."
I also wrote and sang a praise song to God along our journey!!! It was awesome and Jay said that I should write ballads for him! :-)

So, after our adventure we headed to Henry's house and had a great time of feasting & fellowship. Towards the end of the evening Cherri told us that she got a new Paul Wilbur video (one of our favorite and well known Messianic singer/musicians) and as we sat there watching it Jay turned to me and said, "Hey this is just like how we first started talking. At Henry's Hanukkah party back in December 2007 we sat together and talked the whole night while Paul Wilbur was playing in the background." I then looked at him and said, "We have come full circle!" Jay felt at that time God confirmed that was the right moment to propose.

Soon after he was up and loudly said to the crowd, "Listen up people, listen up, I have an announcement to make!" Then he quickly came over to me and got down on one knee and said, "Sarha Jean Caraballo, will you marry me?!" The first thing out of my mouth was, "Did you talk to my dad?" Jay said yes and I then said yes but he didn't hear me and stayed there kneeling and said, "What do you say?" And I said, "I said YES!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA The whole thing was so comical but awesome! It ultimately was how I had hoped it would be, surrounded by lots of loved ones! So, now the planning begins.....one day at a time right?!?!?! Please pray for us as we prepare to become husband and wife....for the Lord's wisdom, guidance, strength and peace!!!!!

Blessings to you all in the name of Yeshua-AMEN!!!
Sarha & Jay :-)

Future Hope & Glory!!!

14For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

15For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"

16The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

17and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

19For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.

20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope

21that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

22For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

24For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?

25But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

26In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

27and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

What A Promise LORD!!!!!

Thank You Abba Father.....MY DADDY!!!!!

1Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,
And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.
2The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
3And He will delight in the fear of the LORD,
And He will not judge by what His eyes see,
Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
4But with righteousness He will judge the poor,
And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.
5Also righteousness will be the belt about His loins,
And faithfulness the belt about His waist. (Isaiah 11:1-5)

THANK YOU THAT THE MESSIAH HAS COME!!!!!

1"I love You, O LORD, my strength."
2The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised,
And I am saved from my enemies. (Psalm 18:1-3)

THE MIGHTY ONE OF ISRAEL IS MY STRENGTH!!!!!

.....16And He saw that there was no man,
And was astonished that there was no one to intercede;
Then His own arm brought salvation to Him,
And His righteousness upheld Him.
17He put on righteousness like a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing
And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.
18According to their deeds, so He will repay,
Wrath to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies;
To the coastlands He will make recompense.
19So they will fear the name of the LORD from the west
And His glory from the rising of the sun,
For He will come like a rushing stream
Which the wind of the LORD drives.
20"A Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob," declares the LORD.

21"As for Me, this is My covenant with them," says the LORD: "My Spirit which is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring's offspring," says the LORD, "from now and forever."(Isaiah 59:16-21)

.....Day and night they do not cease to say, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME." (Revelation 4:8)