Hippity Hoppity Easter's on it's way!

I love Spring! For many reasons such as the weather that becomes warmer, except for that random snow shower we had last week. My need for pedicures since I can now wear flip flops. And Easter. It was always one of my favorite holidays growing up as a child and still is. My mom still puts out the same decorations she did as when I was young. Eggs that we painted with our tiny finger prints all over them.

I was at my IRL friend Mama Faith's house a few days ago and she had the cutest decoration so I had to borrow her great idea! It's very cute and simple! I already had the glass hurricane so I bought jelly beans and the candle color of my choice. This will be a great idea to do throughout other seasons also. Here's a sneak peak at my crafty center piece for Easter lunch tomorrow.




I'm looking forward to seeing my family, eating a yummy lunch but most of all remembering HIM. I have been thinking a lot today about what HE did for me. How blessed I am, how blessed we are.

"Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.

Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)
Then the disciples went back to their homes, but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?"

"They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. "Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?"

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him."
Jesus said to her, "Mary."
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!"
Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' "

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her."
John 20:1-18




Hallelujah!
He is risen!
He is risen indeed!
Hallelujah!