Pip: Between a Father and His Daughter, Home of The Artisans Pen — where the counting never really stops.
Mara: Today we’re looking at a devotional series from ABASilence Ministries that walks the ancient practice of counting the Omer through a Christian lens — seven weeks, seven spiritual attributes, and what it looks like to actually live them.
Pip: Let’s start with the series itself and what it’s asking of the reader.
Living the Omer: Seven Weeks, Seven Attributes
Mara: The central question here is what it means to treat a 49-day spiritual count not as a calendar exercise but as a genuine process of becoming — and this series makes the case that each week’s attribute is something you inhabit, not just study.
Pip: The post describes the first book in the series, A Chesed Lifestyle, and frames the whole project this way: “This is not just a study — it is a daily walk. A slowing down. A noticing. A becoming. And in this first week, everything begins with love.”
Mara: So the upshot is that lovingkindness isn’t a concept to analyze — it’s a posture to develop over seven days of lived reflection. That sets the tone for everything that follows.
Pip: And the series doesn’t stay soft. Week 2, A Gevurah Lifestyle, moves into discipline and boundaries — and the framing there is pointed: sometimes growth is not found in doing more, sometimes it is found in learning restraint.
Mara: Week 3, A Tiferet Lifestyle, takes up balance and truth — exploring how seemingly opposite qualities like grace and strength, or discipline and compassion, can work together rather than cancel each other out.
Pip: That’s the thing the series keeps returning to: tension as the actual site of growth, not an obstacle to it.
Mara: Weeks 4 and 5 extend that. A Netzach Lifestyle centers on endurance — the quiet consistency required to remain faithful when the journey feels long. A Hod Lifestyle follows with humility and surrender, and makes the case that humility is not weakness but, as the book puts it, strength submitted to purpose.
Pip: Week 6, A Yesod Lifestyle, shifts to connection and alignment — examining the foundations beneath relationships, emotions, and spiritual practice. And then Week 7, Malchut, asks the question the whole series has been building toward: what happens when the counting ends?
Mara: The answer the final Omer volume offers is that the attributes don’t disappear on Day 49 — they continue shaping how you love, endure, and walk with others. And there’s a companion book called STAY: The Mystery of the Eighth Day that picks up exactly there, exploring what Scripture calls the reader to after completion — the pattern of remaining beyond the moment of breakthrough.
Pip: Seven weeks of slowing down, and then a whole book about not leaving.
Mara: The series, taken together, frames transformation as something visible in ordinary life — not a spiritual state you arrive at, but one you keep walking out.
Pip: Which makes the counting less of a finish line and more of a practice.
Mara: What stays with me is the insistence that growth happens in the tension — between discipline and compassion, endurance and rest, completion and continuation.
Pip: Forty-nine days to build something, and then the real question: will you stay with what was built?