Good Friday At Our Church

“Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face. ...”

John 19

Bunnies & Eggs

The time has come to show you our Easter decorations that have been sitting around for the last month or so. And this is just a few of them!

“She lays her eggs on top of the earth, to warm them in the dust.”

Job 39

And Now We Are Nine

This evening we celebrated Anne Marie's 9th birthday! With her new boots and hat, she looks like a teenager!

                      Here is the cake I picked out for her, because it is different, wild, and colorful!

Here are the balloons I got.

Here she is shaking and opening her presents. One is a Lego set, and she got to work right away building it!

And here is Anne and her dad, at the end of a happy day.

“God’s gifts and God’s call are under full warranty—never canceled, never rescinded.”

Romans 11

The Persian Ceiling

A couple years ago, we got to see a museum exhibition by Dale Chihuly. It was awesome! And here is only one part of that day, "The Persian Ceiling". How amazing it was! So come, walk under the ceiling with me. I hope you will be as spellbound as I was.

“This inner sanctuary was thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and thirty feet high. Its walls and ceiling were overlaid with pure gold, and Solomon made a cedar-wood altar for this room.”

1 Kings 6

First Fridays

Around these parts, in the warm weather we have something called First Fridays. The first Friday of every month, the local cities turn their downtowns into a festival! The stores are open late and have sales, there are bands and magicians and free food. It is lovely to stroll around! Here is  the first one I went to, in the city of Harrisonburg. Here is a violin player all dressed up.

He is giving me the evil eye as we drive past!

The church ladies had free lemonade.

And there were free horse and carriage rides.

                 This baby was definitely suspicious of the horse and wanted nothing to do with it.

So we come to the end of my very first First Friday! I hope to go to more this spring and summer!

“What’s this I see, approaching from the desert, raising clouds of dust, filling the air with sweet smells and pungent aromatics? Look! It’s Solomon’s carriage, carried and guarded by sixty soldiers, sixty of Israel’s finest, all of them armed to the teeth…”

Song Of Solomon 3 

Twilight In The Mountains

We were driving home last week at twilight. In front of us were the blue blue mountains. But later, when there was a break in the trees, I turned the camera to the side windows and snapped the sun shining on the mountain peaks as it set.

“Beauty pouring off the tops of the mountains, and the best from the everlasting hills; The best of Earth’s exuberant gifts” 

Deuteronomy 33