Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Sunday, April 08, 2012

Happy Easter, Happy Birthday!

He is Risen!

Jonathan requested pancakes in the shape of crosses for his birthday breakfast. (He also badly wanted to wear "pants with Easter eggs and crosses all over them!" but sadly(?) we didn't have that available.)



My garden yielded our Easter flowers. The arrangement turned out oddly Lenten. Oh well, they're still beautiful!!



We're off to church to celebrate Christ's resurrection! Afterward the children will hunt for eggs and stuff themselves with an unreasonable amount of sugar. :) Then home for naps and an Easter dinner extraordinaire. It is going to be a lovely day.

He is Risen, indeed!

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Another Easter thought

This is the crucifix at the front of my church. On Good Friday the purple veil of Lent was removed, and I saw again the starkness of the crucifixion. It is hideous. God among us, dying the most painful death that man could imagine. It hurt to look at it.

Today I saw it in the early dawn of Easter morning. It is still hideous, but that is not why I cried. I looked on Him who gave himself for us, and I saw love.