“The great gift of Easter is hope.” – Basil Hume
I was so happy to be able to go to church on Easter Sunday this year. It seemed very strange when Easter rolled around last year and many churches, including ours, were dark due to the COVID19 pandemic. Of course, even though we didn’t get to have church services celebrating Easter, that didn’t keep believers from remembering it was Easter, or Resurrection Day as my pastor always liked to call it.
We were back in church at my little country church today but without our pastor who is celebrating that Resurrection Day up in heaven. The sadness of that thought was for us here and not at all for him there.
But joy still came with the day as our interim preacher shared the Gospel truth of the empty tomb. And the grandkids came to join in with our worship with their masks. If masks help us beat this virus, I’m all for them and the kids wore them to keep everybody else at church safe.
Only four of the grandkids were at church this morning, but seeing them and the pictures we took, had me going back through time to remember other Easter Sundays. The picture up top is eleven years ago when all the grandkids were able to be at church with us. They did lose the masks for some other pictures.
In the next picture here we go forward a year to 2012 and then 2013 and 2014 when we must have had some back to back beautiful days for Easter as the kids are posing before they run out into the yard for an Easter egg hunt.
It’s sort of fun to look through the years and see how the kids have grown up. For sure, they are a grandmother’s blessings even as they are reaching the age where some of them are leaving the nest and trying out their wings. But it is fun when they show up at our little church to fill some pews on Easter Sunday. Even when they have to wear masks.
I hope you had a blessed day as well, and maybe sneaked a few chocolate treats the way I did when I was filling up some Easter eggs for a Easter hunt.
Did you have blessings to count today?
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Beautiful family.
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Thank you, Lucy. Of course, I do agree with you. 🙂
We attended church today and two of our grandbabies were there this day. Then back home to have dinner and a egg hunt. 15 people was here. Now I am resting in my recliner. I am a Blessed person. I am to thankful for what Easter means …Because he lives, I can face tomorrow.
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That is a beautiful song, Lisa. Because he lives. I was so glad to be able to be back in church this Easter Sunday. I too am blessed.
Sounds as if you had a great Sunday with the kids and grandkids. Good for you. I only had 9 here Sunday. A small crowd compared to many other Easters, but I was still tired at the end of the day.
What lovely pictures of your family! It was great to worship in church today. Our church was full, and my two neighbor ladies asked to go to church with us. We were delighted to take them with us and worship our Lord and Savior with them.
I’m grateful for my wonderful husband of 46 years, our health, our comfortable homes, our part-time jobs even though we’re both retired, our faith, our friends, and our church.
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That’s a beautiful list of reasons to be thankful, Suzanne. Thanks for sharing that. I too am thankful for my long marriage and for my family. I’m also thankful that I can still write stories to share and that I have friends who read my blog posts and leave comments like you. Makes writing posts so much better.
I’m glad your church was full on Sunday. We had a few more at our church. We are very small and not sure exactly what we can do to be a stronger Christian witness in our community. Right now, we are in transition after losing our long time pastor who is finding out about all the wonders of heaven.
Thank you for your kind words about my family. Of course, I think they are all beautiful. 🙂