Tag: Easter

He is Risen

It’s Sunday! And not just any Sunday. Resurrection Sunday! The day we hinge our entire faith on.

Had the story ended on Saturday, it would have been just another story. The disciples were discouraged and afraid. The man they had come to follow and love was dead and everything they thought they knew was crumbling.

Thank the good Lord the story wasn’t over.

We don’t have a faith and a hope because of what we do, because of how good we are, or even because Jesus walked the earth and died on a cross. We have a faith and a hope because Jesus lives!

He lives. As our pastor said this morning, we have a living hope because he lives.

Some years it’s just another Resurrection Sunday and it doesn’t sink in. But this year, it’s really impacted my heart. There is no greater joy than knowing we have a God who loves us so much he sacrificed his Son for us.

A lot of life feels like that Saturday did for those disciples. We can’t see the end, we don’t know what the outcome will be. We feel discouraged and depressed because it feels hopeless. But thank God we don’t have a Saturday kind of hope!

We have a Sunday kind of hope. The kind of hope that is impenetrable and unwavering. The kind of hope that outlasts any circumstance. The kind of hope only a living God can give.

Jesus overcame death for you. For me. For whatever you’re facing. He is Risen! He is Risen indeed!

If you don’t know Jesus as your living hope, today is as good a day as any to ask him to be your savior. He loves you so much he endured unimaginable torture and death. Just so you could have a place in heaven. And if you think you’re unworthy, you’re right. We all are. Good thing that doesn’t matter to Jesus. He still wants you as part of his family!

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

Light in the Midst of Crazy

I think about 50% of being a mom is cleaning up other people’s stuff. I mean, really. They leave toys, clothes, wrappers, games, laying everywhere. Sometimes there’s so many clothes in one spot I think a kid has been raptured!

Then 50% is wiping. Wiping faces, wiping hands, wiping butts, wiping spills. I should just carry a wet rag all day.

Then there’s about 10% fun. I know, doesn’t sound like a lot, but after all the picking up and wiping up there isn’t much time left in a day! (Don’t need to mention my math.)

Today we had a few moments of mostly fun. I say mostly because, if you’re a mom you know half of any fun time is you telling someone to “stop touching that”, “don’t put your hands in that”, “don’t wipe that on your shirt”.

It was egg dying day! I think overall we’ll call it a success. The two year old, after being told to gently put the egg in the cup, tossed it in, splattering dye all over, but hey, that’s to be expected, right?!

Brown eggs dye so beautifully!

In the midst of egg dying, the bird that had been trapped in our chimney finally dropped down into the fireplace. Yeah, he’d only been trapped for 24 hours. Guess he couldn’t figure out which way to go in the darkness.

Pause egg dying…chase bird around house…catch bird…bird slips out of hand…chase bird again…catch bird… release bird.

Back to eggs. All in a day’s work, right.

Actually back to that bird in the darkness. It took him 24 hours sitting in a dark flue before he most likely accidentally dropped down the vertical portion into the fireplace.

Do you ever feel like you are in the darkness? Lost? Don’t know where to turn?

This weekend is the best weekend of all for anyone lost in the darkness! It’s Resurrection Weekend!

A friend of mine calls it tue Superbowl weekend of the Christian faith. The whole reason we have a faith and can be saved!

Jesus defeated the darkness. Jesus made a way through the darkness with His perfect light! Follow His Light, His Truth, His Way out of the darkness!

What started in a lowly manger, wound its way to a brutal cross, and then finished with an empty tomb is the greatest true story in history! There’s no greater Light in the darkness than Jesus’ victory over death!

Happy Resurrection Day! May all you moms out there find light in the midst of the crazy!