Category Archives: Easter Season
It’s gonna be a BIG day!
I rolled out of bed this morning ready to get back to the “normal routine” of life after a wonderful Holy Week full of celebrations, traditions and meaningful moments as we remembered Jesus’s life, death & resurrection. I was mentally … Continue reading
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Reflections on Making Holy Week…Holy
I am sitting here in the quietness of my living room (yes, believe it or not, even with 10 people living under this small roof there are moments of solitude and corners to go to escape) watching the flickering of five … Continue reading
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Palm Sunday – Holy Week Begins
Today is Palm Sunday….the day set aside to remember the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. It marks the beginning of Holy Week for Christians around the world. Holy Week that culminates in the observance of Christ’s death on the … Continue reading
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Easter Family Photos
I’ve always loved getting us all dressed up on Easter Sunday in color coordinating and/or matching dresses for the girls. Besides making for beautiful photos, it also creates wonderful memories and gives us a unique sense of family togetherness and … Continue reading
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Happy Easter
When we wake up on Easter morning all the black ribbons are gone from the table and mantle and they are blaze with color and new life, looking like this – After sunrise service we unveil the Easter basket (yes we … Continue reading
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Christ is Risen!
He is Risen Indeed! In the very early morning hours while it was still dark my mother would awaken us up from our slumber exclaiming in a hushed tone – “Christ is Risen!” – and of course we were expected … Continue reading
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Easter Eggs & Cookie Creations
The Saturday between Good Friday & Easter Sunday is filled with preparations for our celebration. Besides cleaning the house, prepping for our Easter brunch and last minute Easter outfit coordinating, we make our traditional sugar cookies in the shape of a … Continue reading
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The Excellent Easter Egg Hunt
We are blessed to have a group of believing friends (all of us who attend different churches & denominations) who get together once a month for praise, prayer, fellowship & food – based on the scriptures found in Acts 2:42 … Continue reading
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Making the connection – Christmas to Easter
As I shared at Christmas we always make a point to connect the birth of Christ and that celebration to His ultimate purpose – His death & resurrection. At Christmas the first ornament we put on the tree is a … Continue reading
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Pictures from Good Friday
Our yummy hot cross buns! The final candle on the cross stays lit until noon. Rebekah loves hot cross buns! We all enjoyed sitting down around the table to enjoy this “sweet” tradition. After our devotional reading we extinguish the … Continue reading
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Good Friday
It is sad to me that this most important day to our Christian faith – Good Friday – is often just overlooked as “just another day”. The day that Jesus Christ hung on the cross enduring the pain, agony and shame, not … Continue reading
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Our Passover Christian Seder
It has been well over a decade since we decided as a family that we wanted to celebrate the Last Supper during Holy Week. If you are familiar with the story then you know that the “Last Supper” was actually the … Continue reading
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A Flock of Hope
Tonight was the final “sacrificial meal” of the Lenten season. (you can read about that tradition here) We decided to donate the money we saved by eating only rice & pretzels each Wednesday night since Ash Wednesday to the Heifer … Continue reading
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Holy Week Begins – Celebrating Palm Sunday
After preparing our hearts during the past five weeks with our Wednesday Lent observance of a sacrificial meal – we are always ready for the arrival of Holy Week – which is the pinnacle of our Christian faith. Today is … Continue reading
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A Season of Sacrifice – Observing Lent
Last Wednesday we began our yearly observance of Lent. The season of Lent is yet another great opportunity to teach our faith to our children throughout the year. For those of you who are new to these more traditional religious observations let me … Continue reading
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