Buona Pasqua/ Day the Fourth

Dearest you,
Happy Easter!!!! I hope you all are enjoying the day, celebrating Christ's resurrection! I sure am! :) We started the festivities quite early this morning, rising at 5:30ish am to attend a 6:30am sunrise service. Much to our disappointment, the service was held indoors (unlike every other year where they at least TRY to have it outside--sometimes the rain intervenes). It kind of defeated the purpose of a sunrise service, since we, of course, couldn't see the sun rise.
The service itself was...pleasant. Our family has had serious issues with important church services, mainly Christmas Eve and Easter. This morning, I had a rather difficult time containing laughter when the music director started us off acapella and then led us through several different music keys during each song (which was challenging to follow), all the while singing at the top of his lungs. It didn't help that my brother was almost shaking with mirth on my right, and my dad was elbowing me on my left. You kind of had to be there. Ah, good times :)


"The Purpose Driven Life" day four: Made to last forever
"God has...planted eternity in the human heart." -Ecclesiastes 3:11
*Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. -Abraham Lincoln.
*There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right then, have it your way." -C.S. Lewis
*This life is preparation for the next.
*Living in light of eternity will change how we handle every relationship, task, and circumstance.
*There are eternal consequences to everything we do on earth.
*Our values change when we live in light of eternity.
Point to ponder: There is more to life than just here and now.



Back to Easter Sunday--After church we hung around the house, rather lazily, for a while until we joined together for a big brunch. Yum! Then I was "Assistant Easter Egg Hider" to my dad, which, apparently, gave me an advantage to the egg hunt which followed. Least to say, we all received plenty of candy with which to rot our teeth. :D
I tried to play a football game on the wii with my brothers (Madden '08?). I'm pretty sure I creamed them...isn't the purpose to give the other team the ball and let them smash you to the ground? :P Then we all played Spoons, which is a really intense card game. Not to worry, nobody got hurt :D
Afterwords my dad made me drive him on an errand. Nobody died, and the car is in one piece!!! I'd call that successful :)
And THEN as I was calmly and pleasantly reading a book after supper, when, wonder of wonders, a horrid wasp fell from the ceiling and landed right in front of me. He was a stubborn little guy, but eventually my shoe got the best of him. He shall scare the wits out of me no more. My apologies to bug huggers. :D So there is my account of Easter, 2010.
Praise God for sending his Son to die for US and to rise again so that we might have eternal life!!!!!
Con amore,
Sophie