Relief

Relief that Easter is over. I know. I know, Easter is never over, but the annual celebration is now done. It seems that as a Christian, a Lutheran, it gets to be hectic near and on the annual celebrations of the events of the life of Christ.


Meaning, Christmas and Easter. There are other minor holidays that we celebrate well, but these two have been taken over by the whole world and stores are full of Christmas and Easter items months before the event. The church celebrates with song, scripture and drama and Holy week is packed. You add in personal celebrations and it gets very hectic.


So, when Easter Monday comes, you really do feel relief. Now, you can continue with spreading the Easter message and still take time to put your feet up and breathe deeply.


My relief that Easter has happened is not just happiness that the pace will slow a little, but that the Christ has indeed risen and my eternity is finalized.


Happy Easter.

Quietude

Quietude.


Sounds like a quiet singing group. Or a silent attitude.


It has nothing to do with music.


It does have something to do with attitude. The dictionary says is calmness. Which comes from an attitude of quiet.


I love the idea of quietude. Quietness times many. I like watching people who are quiet. Not the ones that are just refraining from noise, but those who have a calmness in their demeanor. I admire them.


I often feel like a bull in a china shop. Running into and over things to get to the spot I need to be in. Whether is my place in the bell choir or my pew in church. I try to be quiet, and usually don't make an inordinate amount of noise, but there are some who just move in quiet moments and bring them with them.


Quietude. Being still. Being calm.


My favorite Bible verse, among many, is " Be still and know that I am God."


Here is to some quietude for all of us as we contemplate what Easter really means.

P is for Post

When I first used the computer for internet stuff, I thought a post was just a stick in the ground to hold things up. Like a fence, a birdhouse or scare crow.


Then along came the internet and it became more than that and the same as that.


When you post something on a blog or face book page you are wanting to hold something up for all to see or to keep something in one place. On the internet nothing stays in place, but you do put it in one spot, whether your blog, page or website.


Sometimes things get out there you wish hadn't. Maybe a picture of you when you all you wanted for Christmas was your two front teef.


Sometimes you post something multiple places because you want the world to know.
Birth of a child, marriage, or at this Easter time, the fact that Jesus hung on a cross for your sins. All of them. Past, present and future.


Sometimes you post out of gratefulness. An illness is past, a tough trial has ended or perhaps someone has loved you a great deal.


I will end this by saying that with this post I want you to know that I am grateful for the love God showed for me by having his son die on the cross and rise again for my sins and my joy.

Over, Done

I am over and done with Winter and its weather. It should have been done with me in February.
It should have been done in March.
It should definitely done in April. And still cold and sometimes snow. Yuk.


I am over and done with trying to enjoy the weather as an extension of Christmas.


The baby Jesus is born, circumcised, and is now in the Garden of Gethsemane. And tomorrow He will hang on the cross and die for my sins.


Even the sin of grumpiness over the miserable winter weather.


Okay.


Over and done with the weather grumps.


Thank you Jesus for not being grumpy and going to the cross for my sins and rising on Easter for my salvation.


 Without the empty tomb the cross means nothing.


And now on to the Joy of Easter and warm sunshine.