What a beautiful Easter Day it was.
The sun is shining and the grass is greening up and the temperature is warming up nicely.
Today Church was packed. All the regulars plus a lot of Christmas and Easter church-goers. It was standing room only but I didn't mind because two of those C&E attendee's were sitting right beside me and are part of my immediate family.
Years ago I dressed my kids in their Easter finest and paraded them in to church and prayed they'd sit still and keep quiet so as not to embarass us.
I realized as one of them sat beside me this morning how much different today was then all those Easter mornings of long ago. Embarassment was the furthest thing from my mind. Instead my prayer was that God would be able to touch his heart in a way that would draw my child closer to Him. That somehow my son would see how much better life is with God then without Him.
I need to remember he's God's son too, and as much as I want that to happen, God has a handle on it and desires it more than me.
Since today is a celebration of the Resurrection I'm hoping that soon another kind of resurrection will take place.
On a different note...I took pictures of the grands Easter presents and baskets, but didn't realize until after they had gone home that I didn't get any picture of them opening everything.
School break was the week before Easter this year. It just doesn't seem right that the boys have to go back to school tomorrow and that they won't be here this coming week. Some habits are hard to break. But even though its over, Easter break has been just great.
I hope you all had a wonderful Easter too.
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