Yet, this is the first year I have spent truly considering the events each day of "Holy Week" that Jesus walked through and that led up to His crucifixion and ultimately to His victorious resurrection on Easter Sunday. It has been an emotional week in that regard.
It has been an emotional week in other regards as well. My last post outlined a few if the communications I had received requesting prayer. The requests continued. And my list of serious prayer requests is even longer. But there were some major praises mixed in as well so it has been a bit of an emotional roller coaster and that has been exhausting.
Today I woke up tired. I took a shower and thought "How am I ever going to be ready for Easter tomorrow if I'm already so tired?" And then I sat down with the Lord, my Bible and a journal and by the time I was done I felt stronger. I made myself some coffee after that and when I was done drinking my coffee I got into the kitchen and spent the rest of the day preparing fruit and coffee cake for the Easter breakfast at church; preparing a ham, peeling and cutting up potatoes, making jello, cleaning and snapping green beans, etc. for Sunday dinner; and fixing lunch in the middle of it all. By 3pm I had finished the bulk of the Easter preparations but it still doesn't feel like I am ready.
Ready or not, Easter will be here tomorrow and it's time for me to get some sleep. I pray tomorrow will bring blessings on each person who reads this blog post. Abd also on those who don't read it!
HE IS RISEN!!!
He is risen indeed!
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