Easter Blessing

I didn't post at Easter because I've been very busy, working on a book. But it's still the Easter Season. So I would like to share something I wrote a few years ago. 

Easter Blessing

We are each important to one another but most important is our God.

He made us and we are the work of his Hand.

He does not make us and let us go. He does not love us and let us go.

He made us and loves us…even to sending his Son…even to watching his Son die in agony…for us.

His Son came, suffered, and rose from the dead; that we might have life, and have it more abundantly…that we might know the greatness of His love for us.

He loves us with a tender love which knows our trials, knows what it is to be human.

He loves us with a nurturing love which knows what it is be mothered by the best mother on earth.

He loves us passionately. He who knows what it is to love passionately, both as God and as a human, caring for his family and friends when he was on earth.

He loves us with a faithful love, an everlasting love, preparing for us a place, a place of beauty and joy.

He is risen. Let us rejoice!

It's a Gray Day but Spring Will Come Again

Picture: A patio with large trees behind it and gray sky 

The sky is overcast and gray here in my neck of the woods. It's lightly raining. The forecast predicts more rain and possible coastal flooding. 

The "news and views" we hear in the world sometimes cause us to feel like a gray day inside too and - like the concerns of possible flooding for those on the coast - we sometimes fear many things. 

But all we can do is do our part, pray, and trust that spring will come again. While it's fine to plan (and I'm a big planner), we can still live each day as it comes. Maybe that's why Jesus said to pray: "Give us this day our daily bread." Maybe it was not only a way to pray but maybe also a way to live. 

And here are some bright yellow flowers to signal the coming of spring. 

Picture: Daffodils beginning to bloom in the yard...a sign that spring is coming