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Choose to attend the meal and receive the blessing

Chinese New Year is a celebration that has many elements steeped tradition and pointing to deep meaning.  It is difficult to gloss over these elements.  As an Indian boy growing up in multicultural Malaysia, I loved the red packets of money I would get when I visited Chinese homes.  When I married my darling Lee Yen, I was on the other side giving out red packets.  There is one dinner that was very significant.  The dinner on the eve of the Chinese New Year.  Everyone in the family would try and come together to have this meal.  We had great meats and vegetables before the house is cleaned one last time before midnight.  This reminds me of another kind of significant meal.  The Passover meal. Mark 14:12-15 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they killed the Passover lamb, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare, that You may eat the Passover?” And He sent out two of His disciples and said to them, ...