April 20, 2025 - Sunday



Happy Easter! Christ is risen!!! I'm so grateful, every day, for Jesus's sacrifice for me. I am a lifelong, stubborn, prideful, mess of a sinner, but he died for me anyway. And then he rose again because He said He would, and His Word is truth. This is *the* day that the Christian faith is built upon and I will always celebrate it! 

Before leaving this morning, we played Buck-Buck and, again, Ben was the victor. Sick of it. 😂

I kind of liked being at a different church for Easter Sunday because Dwell just does not make a big deal of things. I mean, I guess they would have tailored this week's teaching to be more guest friendly, but there are just not a lot of emotions attached to things at our church and, sometimes, I just want to be in a church that is doing its utmost to evoke passionate feelings about things that we SHOULD be passionate about! Anywho, just a tiny rant. I'm good with Dwell, it was just nice to be at Love of Christ today. Zach and Skyla came out! I could have sworn I saw Zach raise his hand when the pastor asked if anyone wanted to receive Christ today, but I texted him later to ask if he had and he said he didn't. He did say that the teaching was thought-provoking though, so it's a start! I was getting ahead of myself, excited to message my HC to say that my nephew got saved! I wanted to ask him if he wanted to read the Bible together too! But, alas, I'll just keep praying for his salvation. Skyla was holding Zayden the whole time and was obviously overwhelmed and not paying attention at all, so I didn't have a whole lot of hope for that for her today. Oh my gosh, they did this butterfly release thing at the end of the service, and it was...kind of weird. Like, I like big things. You know this. But each person was handed an envelope with a butterfly inside. We were supposed to all open our envelopes and release our butterflies at the same time. Great in theory! In reality, SO MANY of the butterflies fell to the ground when the envelopes were opened. Some were dead; some got up and flew away. But Jonas was crying because of the travesty of all those butterflies dying for something as pointless as this and I could totally understand what he was feeling! It was hard not to be broken hearted, seeing all those little butterflies on the ground. I'm just thankful we didn't get the girls from Sunday School until afterwards. We would have had WAY more tears if they had been there!

The drive home went smoothly. It was just long and I feel like my week ahead is SO busy, so I stressed for most of the time, thinking about things I have no business stressing about and no ability to control. So many things vying for time lately! I'm really looking forward to a relaxing summer. Will it actually be relaxing? I have no idea. But I'm hopeful! 

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