The Red Tutu

Easter Fun

This was Quint's first year to participate in an Easter Egg Hunt.  Last year he was too little...but this year - oh!  We got an invite we couldn't pass up to get together with friends, have dinner, and set the kids loose on about 50 eggs filled with nothing but sugary goodness.

And we were ready.  It only took a little bit of explaining to get him motivated

Then he was off and finding those eggs faster than Mom could keep up with the camera

Of course Keira and Daddy were enjoying the wonderful weather we've been having from the sidelines

while big brother raced around adding more and more eggs to his bounty

until he figured out there was candy in those eggs

that's when the search came to a dead halt - because everyone knows Quint's Love Language is chocolate

and the consumption commenced

which was ok, because Mom needed a racing break

and because Easter candy is delectable

and because he's so sweet

and ornery

I must admit, I did ask for it when I said "whatcha got there?" Ahem.  Peanut Butter Cup.

...still, he could be the most wonderful boy on the planet

and they could be the best family a girl could have ever hoped for...even if it is impossible to get two little ones to smile for the camera...sigh

Hoping your Easter weekend was filled with all the good things in life!

He Is Risen

Romans Chapter 8

^{Verse 31}What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³²He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶As it is written:
   "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."^{[l] 37}No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

A Good Friday

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. - Philippians 3:10-12

Tonight, I read to Quint and Keira about the final days of Jesus' life before his crucifixion.  I didn't want to overwhelm him with wordy text from the Bible that his two-year old mind could not absorb, so I found his toddler Bible and sat down to read.  They were short phrases and they rhymed.  And there were pictures - beautifully colored and yet gentle for little hearts to take in. 

I haven't done this before.  Read to Quint about the death of Jesus - or explained a holiday that holds significant meaning to our family.  He's been too young.  And I'm not sure how much of it he actually retained anyway.  Honestly, he was moving on to Peter Pan by the time I had placed his Bible back on the shelf.  

But I can tell you this, it holds a much deeper meaning to me to be able to share my faith with my children.  Explaining redemption to my toddler would be far from easy.  I didn't even try, of course.  

But as I read, I became teary and was touched by the simplicity of the words in his little Bible.  

A good man who was kind to all and never did wrong came to take care of us, make a way for us, and show us how to live.  He was not liked by everyone and so he was killed.  But because he was fully God and fully man, he promised that death could not keep him in the grave and so after three days, HE ROSE AGAIN to show us He is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE.

So simple.  So beautiful.

May our lives reflect and be worthy of the deep sacrifice paid on our behalf

We are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb

A Good Friday indeed....