Happy Easter!
The day is mostly over for many of us but I wanted to post and say Happy Easter! I hope all my Christian friends had a blessed and joyous day and that all other friends also had an enjoyable day (hopefully with some Cadbury Creme Eggs thrown in - yum!).
I had a fun day at my mom's with my sisters and their families. Oldest niece and nephew couldn't be there but youngest niece made an appearance. (And it turns out I'm not the only one who thinks she looks like Kat Von D. - but with only a couple tattoos.) We didn't have a traditional lunch, but the food (beef burritos and snacks) was good and we had fun playing Apples to Apples (I won one round, yay!) and discussing all kinds of things. We talked about Mary Magdalene and Jesus, when He arose from the dead appearing to her first before anyone else. They made me think of an old hymn I always liked that, though it isn't often sung in Easter services, really is an Easter hymn:
"I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has every known"
(C. Austin Miles)
I had a fun day at my mom's with my sisters and their families. Oldest niece and nephew couldn't be there but youngest niece made an appearance. (And it turns out I'm not the only one who thinks she looks like Kat Von D. - but with only a couple tattoos.) We didn't have a traditional lunch, but the food (beef burritos and snacks) was good and we had fun playing Apples to Apples (I won one round, yay!) and discussing all kinds of things. We talked about Mary Magdalene and Jesus, when He arose from the dead appearing to her first before anyone else. They made me think of an old hymn I always liked that, though it isn't often sung in Easter services, really is an Easter hymn:
"I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has every known"
(C. Austin Miles)