Monday Manna - Happy Day After Easter

Happy Day After Easter

Sweet Friends,

Hope your Easter was meaningful,

hope filled, full of love, joy, and peace,

 loved ones and great food and goodies!

Our's was all of that! It was wonderful to have our two

 adult children and our two adult children to be, with us

 for the Easter Service this morning and for dinner after-

wards and until late afternoon, when they went to visit

with their new families to be.  It was a good day from

beginning to end!  

Hubby and I wound up taking a late afternoon nap

from 5-7:30, and then stayed up very late watching 

the latter part of the Passion of Christ. 

 It is such a poignant portrayal of what our Lord went

 through for us...........although I have seen it several times 

now,  it is always soooo hard to watch.  It is just so amazing

 how blood thirsty, evil and brutal the men were who

 tortured him.

Just inconcievable to me really!

At times, I just wished I could take those whips and

 thrash them a few times so they would get a taste of

 what they were doing to Him, and that maybe it would

 make them stop!!

  I can not even begin to imagine how his Mother and 

friends must have felt to have to watch it all for real!

It has to be like watching a nightmare you can't 

wake up from! 

 That is what it seems to me when they just keep beating 

him and beating him, I have to admit I have to leave the

 room some of the time, for my heart can hardly stand it.

Every time I watch it I can't help pondering it all for

 days.............but one thing I can say for sure is I am so

 thankful and grateful that the story did not end at

 the crucifixion........

He went thru all the agony, torture and horribleness

of the crucifixion and dying, Only to be raised

 from the dead unto a new life with His Heavenly Father, 

 also giving those that believe in His name and in what

 He did on that cross..... salvation from our sin nature,

  a new life here and now, and eternity in heaven

 with Him when we leave this planet.

Doesn't get any better than that!! 

Who doesn't want to have the power to over

come bad habits and thoughts?

Who doesn't want a better life?

Who doesn't want a second chance at life?

Who doesn't want to know their purpose 

in life?

Who doesn't want to know where they are

going when they die??

Well, Jesus gives us the answers to all those

questions and more.

These are just the late night ponderance

of a woman who can't sleep, because she

can't quit thinking about the love, sacrifice, 

and forgiveness that He poured out for me 

and for you!! 

What A Savior!!

Jesus paid it all............

All to HimI owe

Sin had left a crimson stain,

He washed it white as snow!

Thanks for dropping by and for

 reading the tender ramblings 

of my heart!

Love hearing from you!!

May You Ponder His Great Love,

as well

Love, and Hugs,

Nellie

Welcome to Thankful Thursday - April 21, 2011

(Compliments of Womans Day 2010 - Posterized)



The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock!
 Exalted be God my Savior!
Psalm 18:46


Greetings Sweet Friends,


So how are you today???
and
What have you been up to??


I have just been up to getting ready for Easter
for the most part, which I am sure most of
you can relate to....which leads me to the
first Thankful on my list.


#1 

I am thankful

my menu is all planned, and that my table plans for Easter,

 are coming along nicely.  Also, that others are pitching

in to help. As many hands makes the work light!!

( a lil sneak peek of a work in progress)


#2

I am thankful

that we got most of our food shopping done for

Easter Dinner, just need a trip to Sam's on Friday.

#3

I am thankful

that Lord willing, our whole family will all be together on
 Easter for most of the day,  then of course, they need to 
visit with their other families to be.

#4

I am thankful

that our church has a Maundy Thursday Service,

in case you are not familiar with one, it is not your

 typical unlifting service,   it is really for the purpose

 of making us realize and ponder what Jesus went thru

 before and while on the Cross in our behalf,  before we

 get to Sunday, the day that He was Resurrected from

 the dead, so that,  we can really 

CELEBRATE  and APPRECIATE, 

His Resurrection in a more heart felt way.

I have to be honest I don't always look forward to going

to this service, but I do love the results.... because it 

really does make for a more

Aware, Grateful, and Joyful  Easter Celebration!

#5
I am thankful

for our friends that visited with us on Monday evening,

it has been a while since we have been able to get together,

 as she has been quite sick and he has been going thru

 chemo treatments, so it was  great to spend some

time with them. He is in remission, (definitely another

 praise) but they still give those treatments for awhile

as a precautionary.

They even brought me a belated birthday present,

am surprised she could even remember with all

she has had going on.  Always a thoughtful friend.

 This was my fun Gift......3 cute lil bunny bowls,  so sweet, I just
had to have my cereal in one yesterday!! Sweet hand towel an a
 Ty Pennington decorating book, lovely care and adorable  gift bag!

and I almost forgot............this neat lil handheld fan for my hot flashes!! 

 I have had one before and ladies they are great to keep in your purse

 for when you are out and you get your own tropical wave!!  lol

#6

I am thankful

that the same friend got a huge answer to prayer

and called the next day simply ecstatic. We are just so

 happy for her.  She sounded more like her old self than

 I have heard her sound in quite some time! 

 What joy that brings to our heart!

#7

I am thankful

for a weeks worth of uninterrupted sleep,

 full 8 hours all at once!!.

It has been wonderful!!

Many Thanks to those who have prayed for this!!

#8
I am thankful

for the prayers of God's people, friends here at 

home and in blogland,  as we have felt them many times, 

throughout this time of lay off, and I really believe they have

 helped keep us joyful,  and can't begin to tell you how 

grateful we are for that!!

#9
I am thankful

for something I think the Lord did for me......

 Now you might think I am crazy when I tell you the story. 
 I really really  like our porch chairs and we have had them
 for quite a long while, and  they have gotten where the arms
 of the chairs get very dirty looking and when we clean them
 most of it comes off, but it is getting so it is working less
 everytime. So about a week or so ago I was on the porch and it
 was time to clean them again, and I was saying Lord what can 
I do about these chairs they are starting to look really bad, and

 if we paint them then we could never clean them and so on.

Anyway, last Friday we cleaned them, and I decided to use

 a Publix brand clorox kitchen cleaner.  Now I would stake

 my life on the fact, that I have tried clorox before, but for some

 strange reason just felt to try it again, all the time thinking it

 probably want do a thing...............
 and much to my great surprise it took everything off and
 seriously they look like brand new chairs!  
I am still shocked over it,  and so is hubby, and we both 
truly feel it was a gift from the Lord!!

Call me crazy if you want,  but I know He has done

 stuff like that for me many times. So we are praising

the Lord for His goodness once again!!

If you would like to see the back porch, you can
sort of see our chairs, click here for an older post.
  It doesn't look quite this bright now tho.
Too bad the sun causes fading!!  lol

#10

I am thankful

for these new Big Friends from the animal kingdom

that dropped by to enjoy the respite of our large

Maple tree this week.  They are actually our next

door neighbors dogs who have just recently learned

how to escape their yard,  and they are having

FUN  with it!!

(One is a sheep dog, and have no idea what the other one is, 

 but they are both sweet dogs,  I took some water out to them, cause 

they were hassling so, from the heat, bless their hearts!!)

Which leads me to................

#11

I am thankful

that I wasn't born a large dog in Florida that has to 

live outdoors in this heat, unless my owners was

wealthy and I had an Air Conditoned dog house!! lol

But actually, I am quite serious abut that!!

And 
I have saved the Best for Last,
My most important Thankful...................




#12
I am thankful
to the Lord Jesus, for all He did for me that day on
the cross.  Not only did he give me salvation and a place
in Heaven,  but a new life as well.  I could never imagine
what my life woud be like without Him in it!
He is not only a Holy God, but a Savior, counselor,
and the Best Friend a person can ever have!!



Well, Sweet Friends, that wraps up
 my week of
Good happenings.................


I pray that you and yours,
 will have
 a Wonderful Easter Celebration 
with your family and/or Friends.


Thanks for dropping by,  always
great hearing from you!!


Love, Blessings
and 
Special Easter Hugs to You!!


Nellie

Tabletop Tuesday - Spring Decorating

Good Morning, Good Morning, 

Sweet Friends,

How are you today???  Feeling well, I hope!!

I am feeling quite well today,  had a fun evening last night,

some old friends came over for a visit, and we set up a

blog for her, so hopefully before too long I will get to 

introduce you to her,  Also got 8 hrs. of uninterrupted

sleep, a very good thing,  and heard good news

that Joey is doing well.

So.......................

Decided to make it a fun day and link up to TableTop

Tuesday over at Marty's.

Decided to show you this tabletop today

since it had some Easter decorations

on it,  the others mostly look like spring.

Decided I didn't like the box with Spring written on it,
used up all the eggs, and it could only be used for spring.
I tend to not like too many pieces that are not more versatile. 
 So returned the lil box,  and used this lil glass basket that
 belonged to a sweet elderly neighbor, Miss Ruthie, who
 passed away about 10 yrs. or so ago! She was such a sweetie,
 and much like a grand mother to all of us!!
  We have really missed her as she was such a
blessing,  so it brings wonderful memories of her.........

I really love these faux eggs,  they look so real!!

I love this lil hat box....so cute with the lil
roses in the bottom of it!!

Notice I added in my new pretty candleholder I rec'd
for my birthday,  the other 2 are on the dining room
table.  Love that the flower on the candleholder
matched the one in the picture, altho a lil hard to
tell in this picture!  

This is a cabinet next to the fireplace.  Have 
one on each side,  but hard to get a good
pic of the other one, cause of the lighting.

A few Easter Bunnies too!!

But Please let me be clear.........
 Easter is All About Jesus
and His dying on the cross and His being 
resurrected from the dead and I could not be 
more Thankful for what Jesus has done for Me, 
and so many others that I love, and that I don't
even know.  I would never want to do anything
to diminish the great sacrifice that He made
for me and you.....EVER!




But the lil girl in me still loves Bunnies, and
eggs and all that fun stuff I grew up with!!

Hope you enjoyed your visit !!

Thanks for coming by today, 

 it is always great to hear from you!!

Make sure to go over and visit Marty 

At a stroll thru life,  so you can see

 all the other creative table tops.

Click Here!

Hope your Tuesday is Terrific!

Love, Hugs, 

and 

Happy Easter Blessings....

Nellie

(Compliments of Womans Day 2010)