Mid Easter Weekend

Had a lot of thoughts about Easter yesterday and today. I've enjoyed sharing them with my mom and talking about all of it. First, I sort of feel like Easter should be celebrated every day! After all, the cross and resurrection are the foundation for my life!

I watched a few scenes from the Passion last night. I have never seen it and I still only saw some of it. The violence is tough to watch and it certainly makes you wonder, why? Why would someone go through that. The Scriptures have the answer! He did it for me. (Hebrews 9:16-29)

Sin is awful. Sin is black. Sin is that violence. It had to be that way to defeat sin.

I sat there and during the scene when they bring Jesus before the Sanhedrin all I could think was it seems so impossible. It's SO impossible and unusual that the fulfillment of Scripture, well there's no other explanation than that it was the Lord! It was possible. It did happen.

It seems so wrong. The people lied. The people believed lies.

5 days ago they were worshiping and celebrating Jesus. What changed?

The Sanhedrin couldn't even legally crucify him so they had to take him to someone who could.

Pilate himself wrestled vehemently with what is 'truth'.

Peter denied Jesus three times. How do you come back from that? Jesus restored him three times.

Judas tried to give the money back.

Everyone knew He was innocent. He was who He said He was.

There were so many people Jesus encountered in the last days of life. Think of all the lives that were forever and historically changed!

"...But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself."-Hebrews 9:26

This last verse in John makes me smile....Jesus is truly incredible! Our words can not even begin to give Him the glory due!

"Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written." -John 21:25

Sportsmen's Classic

Last weekend I did something I've never done before. I went to the Sportsmen's Classic! It was much better than I expected! They had a lot of great vendors and food! I was even blessed to receive some South Carolina activity pages and posters for my kiddos! Tried some alligator and no, it's not quite like chicken. It was more fishy and is a darker meat. Got some PepperSpray and saw a giant bear and learned that Bear Mace is rather expensive and quite different from normal mace. Saw some precious pups. If you want to learn more, check it out here!