The Best of the Week Is...

It is difficult to determine what was the most exciting and amazing moment of the past week... my alma mater winning their first State Boys Basketball Championship in a last second Hail Mary bucket, or the satisfyingly meaninful worship experiences of Holy Week, or watching our 11 month old lab try to catch bubbles in the air, or my body's dramatic and remarkable recovery from the 24 hour flu... hmm hard to decide.

I know my least favorite moment of this past week... my Blue Devils losing in the second round of the NCAA...by the way, thanks everyone for the sympathy cards. At least, in the words of our youth director, the Dukies didn't lose to a bunch of clarinet players from Belmount.

Wow, but still...there is next year...

Lenten Sacrifice- final word

You may be wondering what my first bite of chocolate was like on Easter after the l-o-n-g suffering of lent's sacrifice.

It was a piece of Dove dark chocolate. I hid in the laundry room for a moment alone. Lovely.

Then, unexpectedly 5 hours later I vomited so severely I thought my contact lenses would pop out... then stuff came out the other end... great way to end Easter day... with the flu.

Maybe I wasn't meant to ever eat chocolate again. sigh.

Easter Worship

Wow- we had terrific worship at 9 and 11:11 on Sunday! Lots of friends and family of Calvary! Fabulous music; thank you to the brass, organ, handbell and Praise choirs and the Youth Choir (at 11 especially)!

Yummy breakfast too- thanks to the ladies who organized and prepared!

It was a joy to celebrate Resurrection Day with everyone! What a terrific spirit and presence of love and light and peace throughout our worship on Sunday!

Sun Rise

The few, the proud and the early made it to Sunrise this morning! And it was gorgeous! Thank you to the Scholar choir for excellent music and meaningful worship as a few of gathered at the tomb early this morning...

Eggs Evaporate

Hordes of children scurried through our sanctuary on Saturday morning to gather and hunt eggs! I have never seen so many eggs get snatched up so quick by such little hands!

Meaningful Good Friday

Our worship on Good Friday was perfectly haunting, beautiful and emotionally riveting. The choir, organ, oboe, flute and cello were magnificant! Watching the sun set as the sky darkened and as candles were extinguished to the reading of scripture was awe-ing.

Were you there... when they laid him in the tomb?

Moving through Holy Week

Last night we had a marvelous Seder Meal for our church members! Kudos to the preparation and clean up crews! It was so meaningful to go through an ancient religious ritual that was dear to Jesus' heart and practice and consider the deep roots of the Passover in understanding Jesus as our sacrifice of atonement and salvation.

Wow- just wow. My three year old really liked the Sabbath candles the best. The candles AND the four glasses/cups of wine/juice. She was all over that!

Now, in a few moments we are going to reflect in scripture, mediatation and beautiful music on the death of Jesus... such a somber and serious service of worship... but such a rich and meaningful one too...