He is Risen!!!

Here is the account of Jesus' Resurrection from Mark 16 NIV:

Jesus Has Risen

16 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. ² Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb ³ and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?”

⁴ But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. ⁵ As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.

⁶ “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. ⁷ But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’”
⁸ Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.^[a]

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⁹ When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. ¹⁰ She went and told those who had been with him and who were mourning and weeping. ¹¹ When they heard that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe it.

¹² Afterward Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country. ¹³ These returned and reported it to the rest; but they did not believe them either.
¹⁴ Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
¹⁵ He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. ¹⁶ Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; ¹⁸ they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
¹⁹ After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God. ²⁰ Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it 
  

Good Friday

This account of Jesus' death is taken from Mark 15, in the New International Version:

The Crucifixion of Jesus

21 A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. 22 They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 23 Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. 24 And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get. 25 It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. 26 The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews. 27 They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. [28] [a] 29 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, 30 come down from the cross and save yourself!” 31 In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! 32 Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

 The Burial of Jesus
⁴² It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, ⁴³ Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. ⁴⁴ Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. ⁴⁵ When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶ So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. . .

Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. ⁴⁷ Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.

Have you ever stopped to wonder what it would have like, to witness Christ first hand.  To have seen Him preach and teach.  To see His miracles.  What was going through everyone's mind that Friday evening?  How was their Sabbath different now, compared to the previous three years?

Being almost 2,000 years after the fact, we can morn the lose of Christ on Good Friday because we know Sunday is coming.  With that, I leave you with a link to this video.
 

Day of Photos?

Well, not exactly a day of photo's, just things that grabbed my attention (and my frustration in our camera and my lack of photography skill ~ tired of blurry, grainy photos). 

           Had hopes of capturing some good photos of our barely colored carnations.  With a bit of work in trimming the stems and cutting them, we did get some coloration.  Down side, there are only tiny veins of color.  Hard to capture a good photo of that, for me anyway.

Anyhoot ~  here are a few others that turned out fairly well, some with a few retakes.

 The boys had played outside for awhile this afternoon.  Thing two really wanted

popcicles today and really seems like a good day for them.  We had none though.

I offered to make yogurt fruit ones and use the popscile forms we had.  They weren't

to keen on the fruit I wanted to use, but being mom, I stuck to my guns to get berries in them.

After letting the berries thaw a bit and get mashed, I set the potato masher in the sink.

Loved the color left in the sink.
Equally love using bleach in my white sink to maintain the white.  It will

get cleaned later.

 Remember our Resurrection Garden post from a few days ago?

I noticed today we have grass growing.  It's like baby hair right now, but

still very cool to see.

 Another view of the grass.

 Not one of my best photos.  This was rather hard to get a

good shot, but this is the best.  These seedlings are basil.

Hoping for an explosion of basil this year!

(and tomatoes too, which we haven't started yet)

Around Halloween last October, we ended up with 7 little pumpkins.

We saved the seeds from one pumpkin and get them planted.

Going strong, reaching for the sun, about ready for a larger pot (just

not sure if it is time to put them outside yet!)

What are you growing?  Let me know, maybe we can compare notes!  Any suggestions on camera's?

 

Resurrection Garden

Have you heard of these before? Have you seen them over on Pinterest?

     Thought it would be a good thing for Easter this year to make and seems easy enough to do.  The one I had seen here gave a good list to follow.  The one down fall was I didn't have a large, clay saucer and knew I didn't have dirt or grass seed.  Quick trip to Wal-mart to pick up supplies.  I was shocked that the saucer was over $6.50 dollars.  Bought it anyway and started looking around the house for alternatives and found one.  Also decided to use some larger, decorative rocks instead of the ones I picked up as well (two things to be returned now!).  Anyway, here's my take on the Resurrection Garden:

 Dirt and surprisingly the organic stuff was cheaper than plan old dirt!

 Mixed the compost with water to make mud!

Good day for a wanna be garden when one gets to play with dirt!

It even smelled good!

Small clay pot (I had several to choose from) and square, ceramic tray

I have from an old candle set.  This should do the trick.

I put aquarium gravel down and laid the pot down on it's side.

Next applied the wet dirt over most of the area.  Then sprinkled grass

seed all over the damp dirt.

 

 Between the opening of the pot and the corner I laid the decorative stones.

 Here is a top view of our Resurrection Garden.  There is grass seed on there.

Hope to take a photo, each day, to show the progression of grass growing.

 Well to truly celebrate the resurrection, there needs to be crosses.

Good thing we have wood skewers, twin, and Elmer's glue.  I actually

separated the length of twin to be 3 different pieces so that it wouldn't be

to thick when tying the two pieces together.  Then a spot of glue to help

hold it all together.

 These turned out fairly well, I think.

Probably won't put them in until Good Friday though.

Feel free to copy my idea or the one I linked.  Either way, take a look around your house to see what you have, no need to spend an arm and a leg for this.  It is more important to think of the cost that Jesus paid, for us.  We have truly been given the greatest gift in his death.  A simple acceptance of His suffering and death enables us to enter into eternity with Him.  Now that is true Grace!