Holy Week is the most important week of the year for Christians. It is on this week that we remember the final week of Jesus Christ's earthly life, where he entered Jerusalem in triumph, cleansed the temple of unholy merchants and money changers, broke bread with his disciples and instituted the sacrament or communion that Christians still partake of to remember the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior. He prayed for strength in the Garden of Gethsemane and took upon himself the sins of all mankind, while his disciples slept. He was then betrayed by one of his close followers, arrested, subject to a mockery of a trial, beaten, mocked, scored, tortured and finally forced to carry the cross to which he was cruelly nailed. He died for all of us - took the sins of all mankind upon himself - opening the way for us to return to Him and live forever. He was laid to rest in a borrowed tomb, then rose again on the third day as He had said He would, and He lives now. He is my Lord and Savior - He is all of our Lord and Savior. He lives, and because of his great sacrifice, we can live too - both now and after we leave this life.
On Monday of last week, we met up with our daughter Tiffany and her family to attend the Lindon Temple open house. The temple will be dedicated as a house of worship in May, but before the dedication, anyone and everyone who wants a tour of this beautiful, holy building can come to the open house.
Here is Charly and I with our daughter, her husband and four of their five children at the temple open house.
After the temple, we went to an all-you-can-eat pizza place for dinner. Our oldest grandson, Miles, was off work, and joined us. We had a fun dinner together.
The trees in our area were covered with blossoms at the beginning of the week, but by the end of the week, the blossoms were gone - replaced by new little green leaves.
There are flowers out in bloom in the yard of our old house. I love tulips and used to have many more, but the many squirrels in the old neighborhood have dug up many of my tulip bulbs.
We also had some rain this week, and a small amount of snow in the valley, with more in the mountains. We need moisture badly and we are grateful for what we got this week, but we are still in a serious water deficit.
This past week of school was last week before spring break. On Friday, the students were dismissed at 12:30 p.m. (as they always are on Friday), and the principal let us teachers go home shortly after that, so it was nice to get home a couple of hours earlier than normal. I enjoyed an afternoon nap when I got home.
After my nap, I spent some time downstairs cleaning things out (especially in Josh's old bedroom). The picture shows the carload of things I took to our local charity thrift store to donate. We have donated a lot recently and Monday morning, another thrift store is coming to pick up some large furniture pieces that we are donating to them.
In addition to donating a lot of things, I posted some more items for sale on Facebook Marketplace and I ended up selling these items - Josh's Game Cube, Josh's clarinet (which he played for one year as a 5th grader), two bookshelves, and some hanging flower pots.
Saturday was another busy day of moving, but we took time out in the late afternoon to meet up with friends for dinner at this restaurant. We had a nice visit.
Sunday morning, I got up and put our Sunday dinner of "Swamp Potatoes" in the Crock Pot.
Our church had it's semiannual General Conference Sunday and that was on TV, so we "watched church" and didn't go in person. You can see the mess that our family room is in - filled with boxes for our move.
About noon, after a quick lunch, we went back to our new house, but we didn't stay long and were back home in time to watch the afternoon session of our church's General Conference. Josh stopped by for a brief chat, as he frequently does when he has the time. His apartment is about ten minutes from this house.
It was a beautiful spring day. The air was clear and the sky was a bright blue without any clouds. You can see that there is some snow high up on the mountains from last week's snow.
Our Sunday Easter Dinner was the Swamp Potatoes I had put in the slow cooker in the morning. Along with the Swamp Potatoes, we had a green salad and some fresh baked cinnamon apple bread.
After dinner I went for a walk around the neighborhood. It was a very nice evening for a walk.
When I got home from my walk, the man who purchased our bookshelves had come to pick them up. He said he had a lot of books and was happy to get some good bookshelves, and we were happy that our shelves were going to a person who loves books.
Later, Charly and I finished watching this documentary about Bible prophecies and archeology. It is very interesting. This is the last in the Bible documentaries called Patterns of Evidence.
After Patterns of Evidence, we started watching The Story of Moses on Netflix.
Gratitude:
- Traveling safely back and forth to our new home.
- Being on spring break for all of this week.
- Hearing wonderful, inspiring Easter messages at our church's General Conference.
- Selling unneeded items on Facebook Marketplace.
Praying For:
- Help in finishing the school year.
- Help in finishing our move.
- Help and protection for my children and grandchildren.
- Help in selling our current house.
Looking Forward To:
- Having the whole week off.
- Moving all of our heavy furniture with the moving company this Thursday.
- Finishing the school year and retiring.
That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by. Have a good week, and remember Jesus is risen!
Until next time.
😊Deb💖
"I stand all amazed
at the love Jesus offers me
Confused at the grace
that so fully he proffers me.
I tremble to know that
for me He was crucified,
that for me a sinner
He suffered, He bled and died.
Oh it is wonderful, wonderful to me."
~ I Stand All Amazed
Text and Music by Charles H. Gabriel
