It's Friday.........but Sunday is coming!!!

What a promise we have been given!  Jesus died on the cross for my sins, your sins, everyone's sins.  All you have to do is admit you are that sinner, believe that He died for you and confess Jesus is Lord.  ABC. You and me.  Isn't that awesome? However to get to that point - Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins.  Good Friday.  Jesus was crucified.  Crucification is a Roman means of execution where the prisioner was nailed to a cross.  Heavy wrought iron nails were driven through the wrists and heel bones.  If the victim lingered too long death was hastened by breaking their legs.  There is agony and disgrace associated with being crucified.  The Bible says at the sixth hour a darkness came over the whole land.  That would be noon.  At the ninth hour Jesus cried out, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani.....My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?  Now it is late in the afternoon and there was an urgency to get Jesus' body down from the cross before sundown, when Sabbath began.  He was taken from the cross and buried in a tomb.  A huge stone was rolled over the opening.  Guards stood by the stone.

Does that sound like a good Friday?  It is Friday, but Sunday is coming.  He arose!  He gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit living in us when we accept him, all because his death on the cross.  We can look at Scriptures and see how Jesus fulfills prophecies spoken hundreds of year before, and we can understand that His is a kingdom far exceeding our hopes and dreams.  Even today God lets us go through faith crises, and we don't see how he can bring good out of these situations.  But each of us must live through our Good Friday and Silent Saturday to arrive at Easter Sunday, a time of resurrected hopes and dreams.

Blessings and Good Friday to all.

Blue Monday

GO.BIG.BLUE.
The Kentucky variety.  Bring home #8 tonight!!!

April Fool's Day, or April 1, 2012

Today was absolutely gorgeous. Sunshine, slight breeze, mid 80s. A perfect day for my first round of golf this year. Well, only got to play 11 holes, but thoroughly enjoyed the 11 holes I got to play. As my friend and I drove up to #12 (now don't let that confuse you since I said I only played 11 holes) at CCCC I laughed and said this would not be a good day to get a hole in one because nobody would believe me. I then hit my tee shot and seriously it came up short of the hole by maybe 15". We laughed so hard! Got excited because I really thought I had done it. Of course, I missed the putt. The greens have been aerated so were not ideal for putting, but I can't put the blame on that. I turned my putter. Oh well. A par is a par. Since it was such a beautiful day there were many on the course and we were only a twosome so we played #10 then #16-18 then #10-#16. That is a perk of playing in smalltown USA. We just wanted to play, not keep a score so we jumped around. It would have been a 39 if I counted the best score on the holes we played twice, so not bad for first outing.

Actually I would be happy with that all summer. It just was SO relaxing and SO beautiful with all the spring trees in bloom, and amazing how green the fairways were for this time of year. God is such an awesome creator.  Dogwood trees, azeleas, tulips, red bud trees, so many different colors and hues.  Such awesome display of God's beauty.  But did you know that God also believes you are beautiful?  I have never thought of myself as an attractive person, but God believes I am beautiful.  In Ecclesiastes after the part about a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven, Chapter 3:11-13 says "He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.  That everyone may eat and drink and find satisfaction in his toil - this is the gift of God"

You have been given a gift of beauty - around you and in you.  May each of you see the beauty around you this week.

Blessings.