I miss the old hymns. This is the first verse of "Up from the Grave He Arose." Low in the grave is an appropriate line for Good Friday. I find it perplexing how we are attempting to remove Easter from the equation and the hope it represents. My son's name is Tinsaye. In Amharic, his native Ethiopian language, it means Resurrection or Easter. That was one of the reasons we kept his Ethiopian name, for what it meant and what it represented for his life here in America. Now Easter Eggs are "Spring Spheres"?I once defined Easter Sunday, along with Christmas Sunday as Apostasy Appreciation Day. My father was a Baptist preacher for many years and on those two Sundays, church members who hadn't seen the inside of the church all year suddenly appeared in all their finery, Easter hats and all. When was the last time you actually went out and bought an Easter hat?
Yesterday, I almost ruined the painting I had been working on all week. I was very stressed about it. Sometimes we overload ourselves in life. Fixing dinner, repairing the bicycle, yard work, dinner for friends, brother in law's visit, doing art.
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