Each year of our married lives, Les and I have hosted a big Easter egg dye event and then a hunt the next day. Yesterday was our first ever to have to cancel. The day brought storms and tornadoes to our area. Our own yard received golf ball to baseball sized hail. It was simply too awful to risk people to be out in the storms.
We’ve scrambled and rearranged to have the same folks over for Sunday night for dessert after Easter…we’ll change the event, but enjoy the company of their companionship just the same.
We had a good day, albeit not the one we planned. It was supposed to be a 3 group ringer….toddlers and preschoolers first, then later the lollies (little ole ladies) from church and neighborhoods we know, then last, friends of Madison’s with their Mom’s. This is Madison’s big event each year, so we’ll quickly scramble to design a “hat” party in May instead.
Good Friday for me is a joyful day though a day for remembering sorrow. For me the victory start when Christ indeed faces the horrificness that he indeed will be facing the worst scenario after loving the people…..they turned on him….they rejected him….they did what people do….they failed to love him back. Even Jesus asked His father is this necessary, which gives me Hope….yet Jesus obeyed his Father….and today He lives.
Our own lives face dark periods. Periods when we disappoint ourselves, or our children disappoint us in their choices. Sometimes our friends turn on us too….and many face such difficult times, that the worst is feared. What is the worst in your life? Is it bankruptcy? Is it a child making really bad choices? Is it a cancer diagnosis…Is is losing a home …or a child? For me, after watching and experiencing some if not all of the above personally or in my family….I think the worst possible scenario of life is a life lived without Christ. A life without the peace that passes all understanding that allows you to unburden yourself to a loving Father God who wants us to trust Him with our hurts and our happiness. Who wants us to know that we can count on promises and truth that He shares with us in a living Word called the Bible. A love that will mean no matter what “worst” we face, we will live with God in heaven for eternity…that all things will work out for good for those who love God….and that we can count on God’s promises when we choose to follow His word.
This Saturday morning I am slowly getting the house ready….preparing the meal to celebrate Christ’s rising tomorrow. Baking breads and swirling frostings….and knowing each moment my own anticipation grows larger to fully embrace that indeed God loved me enough to send His son…and that Jesus, though scourged and hung in my stead on the cross, that through his scourging, he has healed me of what sin does to my life, removed my burdens, and lives today!
God indeed is worthy to be praised!
Happy Easter to us all!
Love the bunny ears! Had an unusual experience the other day at Trinity Hospital in B'ham. A surgical nurse came out to talk to the patient's family, and along with the surgical garb she wore a pair of floppy bunny ears. First "Lop Earred Nurse" I have ever seen. I wondered if the ears were sterile!
I wanted to wait around until the doctor came out to report on the surgery. Would he have the funny glasses, nose, and mustach . . . or maybe an arrow through the head? Oh well, had to get back to Decatur for prayer meeting before he came out.