Easter!

Selamat Hari Peskah! Happy Easter to all! Ours is almost over and yours is just beginning. We had a very nice day and I hope you do as well. This morning we had a brunch with church and that is always yummy! Then we had our church service. Last week when I was reading through the Easter story I was thinking about how the angel didn’t open the tomb so Jesus could get out. He opened it so that we could run in. Cool!
Today we had a houseful. I asked our kids to make invitations telling people that if they had nowhere to go for Easter they were welcome to come to our house for lunch. So they went to all the houses up here on the hill and delivered the message. We had 17 people here. I had a turkey that we brought back from Bali (You can hardly get turkeys here), and cooked up all the regular stuff, mashed potatoes, rolls, corn, beans, jell-o, etc. and lots of desserts. It was a lot of fun. And we had a wide assortment of people that I never would have invited all at once but it worked out just dandy. Sophie was a HUGE help in the kitchen. She peeled potatoes, and cut beans, and made signs and set the table and Wyatt delivered all the invitations and watched Cale and Emma swept and mopped the floors and they all helped with dishes, especially Garth. I am so thankful. I told the kids that this was our chance to be a blessing to others and to think about them before ourselves. Wyatt read a Psalm for everyone and Sophie wrote a prayer. It was very wonderful and sweet.
Today when I was in the kitchen working on the meal I was talking to the ladies about my Mom. “This is the way my Mom does the turkey, ahead of time and puts it in gravy, and my Mom does this jell-o, and my Mom likes to make meals for people and serve people and is so great at making people feel special, etc. etc.” And I thought about how all the people in there do not know my Mother, but they are seeing a glimpse of her through me-because I was doing and acting like her. It is the same way with Jesus. Many people will never see the human side of Him, see His love in service-unless you and I give them a glimpse of it by acting and doing what He would do. Sophie said to me after today, “Mom, I like helping other people. It makes me feel good.”
And that is true. But more importantly, it shows them a bit of what God is like!
Love you-
Hope your day is special!
Love,
Rachel