A Blessed Easter

We had a particularly good service on Palm Sunday, and I especially was thankful for the sermon preached by our pastor. It was the final Sunday in a series on the Atonement that we've been hearing since Christmas. The Lord has really used these messages to bring me into a more serious contemplation of His work on the cross as we approached Resurrection Sunday. The final sermon on the Atonement was preached on Good Friday, and on Sunday we heard a message on the relevance of the Resurrection in our lives.

A new song I've learned recently, "The Glory of the Cross" by Bob Kauflin, has been particularly meaningful during the last few weeks. You can read the lyrics by clicking on the song title above. I hope you are blessed by them too.


We didn't spend Easter with family this year, but we are thankful for our church family. In particular, we are thankful for new friends who are becoming dear to us. We are grateful to the Lord for these brothers and sisters who are an encouragement to walk worthy of our calling.

Here's a family picture from Easter...


Today we are rejoicing in the Lord for His faithfulness to us. Through many months we have waited - not very patiently, I freely admit - for Him to provide permanent employment for Stephen. It has often been a struggle to trust His providences, especially when Stephen didn't get the job with the PTO that we so desired.

But today Stephen was offered a permanent position with the firm where he has been a contract employee since August! He plans to accept and his status will change to permanent employee within the next week or so. Praise God with us!

He's a Genius!!

My four-year old is a genius!! But we already knew that... (smile). Last night he actually read the word "hospitality"! I've been teaching him to read and he's been progressing well, but when I asked him to "sound out" the word hospitality, he did it! He didn't put all of the syllables together exactly right as he sounded it out, but after just that one time, he informed us that it said hospitality. Quite impressive, don't you think?? :-)

A Funny

Last evening on the way home from church, Mr. Blue-Eyes asked me, "Do you think by the time we get home that slime will have evaporated?"

What??!??! Stephen and I looked at each other with this question unspoken. Finally, it dawned on me.

"Do you mean the limeade in your cup?" I asked him. He didn't like it much when we served it at lunch and most of it stayed in his cup.

That was it! I'm not sure how he got "slime" from limeade, but it got us laughing - that's for sure!

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