Easter

I loved having General Conference intermixed with Easter this last weekend. Maybe it was extra rejuvenating because since school was out for two extra days, we headed to Newport. It was pretty chaotic getting out the door, but the blue sky, salty air, the light that is just different here,…

***Post edit note, Conference is so beautifully uplifting today! There is one more session this afternoon, if you’d like to tune in, click HERE. You will be filled with love and hope. And then, after the darkness and the suffering, the anguish and the pain, the ashes…. …came the beauty.…

There was a day in Sedona last month where my sisters and I came across this scene at the Chapel of the Holy Cross. We sat in that simple chapel in awed reverence looking up. Up at the symbolism we discussed in hushed tones, the depiction of that Savior who…

As we have been preparing for Easter this week with our traditional little yellow “Holy Week” cards lined up above the fireplace, (I always wish we could do it better than we are doing it, but we are trying at least!), we read this somewhere (talking about Christ’s miracles): “On…

It is HOLY WEEK. And this video makes me tear up to watch as I ponder what that Holy Week symbolizes: new beginnings. That no matter where we are, or who we are, or what we do, God loves us. And is always there. Always. This particular Holy Day, Palm…

We marched into Easter weekend right on the tail of the wedding, so I was kind of grasping at straws to be prepared (gosh, my “one word” for this year: prepare, sure is a big one, and still so much work to do on that sucker). But you know what?…

That is how people greet each other in Romania on Easter morning. It is translated; “Christ is resurrected!” and the person being greeted responds, “Truly, He is resurrected!” (this is a Christian greeting in other cultures too, but I was introduced to it in Romania and that’s what endeared me…

Just sneaking this in in the nick of time before the day is done. Because it is Good Friday and it is Easter weekend. I have not done any preparation for Easter this year. Our traditional yellow “Holy Week” events pages are hanging empty above our fireplace (there has been…

It was a good, full day. Our traditional “strings-to-the-Easter-baskets” and my Dad helping Lucy: Elle spoke in church. She did a great job. Some cute friends came to listen: Elle had a pretty special blessing from our Patriarch after church.  It was so beautiful.  Since my parents were in town…