Sunday, April 16, 2006

Christ is risen!

Happy Easter!

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead... (1 Peter 1:3)

I usually don't like the day Easter falls on (I know that is worded funny, but I don't want to say "I don't like Easter, because that would be completely untrue) because I'm not that crazy about Spring. I absolutely love the month of March because it's just when things start to get that lovely shade of green, but I don't like the whole month of April because I hate pastels. Isn't that a stupid reason to hate a month? I don't like the pastels, that weird Spring scent in the air, and sunny days with cool air mixed up by days of rain. Actually, the only things I like about April are flowers, the beginning of really late evenings, and Easter.

Today, however, was not a Spring day; it was an early Summer day in every way. The morning was dreary but broke into sun in the late morning, the sun was hot and the air was heavy, there was just a whisper of a cool breeze off the ocean, and I had potato salad and strawberries for lunch. I spent all day with my beautiful family in a warm backyard in Newport Beach and talk all day about Europe and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Thank you, God!

Lent is finally over, so I can indulge in the rich, aromatic delight of coffee for the first time in weeks. I decided to only have decaf though, because I respond very strangly to caffeine. I get nervous and jittery and anxious and I can't sit straight or concentrate and I end up tripping and knocking things over like I'm on speed. I do things like this:


Cody asks that I not have large amounts of caffeine, for obvious reasons, I think.

I'm going to show you a couple more pictures from the day. Here we go.



We were trying to figure out how to take pictures of ourselves with a mirror, but we kept looking into the screen instead of at oursleves or better yet, the camera.



Photo credit: Chelsea



I don't know if you can see what is going on in that picture, but the brown and kind of dead bush on the left and the green, live bush on the right are mingling. I thought it was it was symbolic of something. I'm not sure what yet.



I call that "El Capitan." Look at that picture with the theme from "Stripes" playing in your head.
I have more pictures, which I will upload on Flickr. I think that's enough for now.

I hope you had a wonderful Easter!





After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."

So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me."

Matthew 28:1-10

posted by Jess @ 8:20 PM

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