What an amazing time of year! I have always loved Easter as a kid and this year my love for it was rekindled. Easter, to me, marks the start of spring. It is the 'official' benchmark of new life. I recognized more of a difference this year, most likely because I have spent 4 months in winter; cold, snow, ice, and bone chilling wind for months. I am grateful it is over (although there were moments of winter I thoroughly enjoyed). The drastic change between winter and spring is actually noticeable here, opposed to the slightly varied temperature change that we were experiencing in FL. With all the physical signs of new life around me it seemed to parallel our New Life in Christ. Our lives are like the bleakness of Winter-No hope, no sun, gray, depressing. Even the most enjoyable moments of winter are nothing compared to the Glory of Spring. When spring comes it is an AMAZING transformation. Things become green and lush. Birds return, babies are born. People crawl out of their homes that they have been holed up in for months and experience sun...fresh air. Our lives are bleak and doomed to an eternity without God. Yet, because God sent His Son to die for our sins, a blameless Lamb sacrificed on the Altar, and because the Son chose to obey the Father, we can have an abundant live here on Earth and spend eternity in Heaven in the presence of God! We do nothing to earn this, can do nothing to repay it, yet we are loved beyond measure and when we choose to accept this gift we are welcomed into the Kingdom of God. Praise to the Lord!
Check out an aweseome Easter Message from Oak Pointe Church. http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=53394653&id=217270258
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Olivia dying Easter Eggs
Olivia's first Egg Hunt (it's a long video-just a heads up)
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