He Is Risen! 🪨✝️ Happy Easter!……..Cascade Wanderings

elizabethbit (79)in Boylikegirl Club • 7 hours ago

He is Risen! He is Risen indeed! 🪻🕊️

I hope that everyone has had a joyful Easter! Our day began at an earlier than normal service time as they were offering 3 services; 8 AM, 9:30 AM, and 11 AM! @silvertop and myself lead worship for many years, and I have to say I’m exhausted just thinking about what the worship team and Pastor Kyle did today! I know what that’s like first hand!

The service was lovely. We attended the first one and was surprised to see as many of the people who attend the 9 AM services on normal Sundays, there this morning.

Once home, @silvertop had some things that needed doing, so as he did that, I rode the stationary bike. When he was done, we headed to Bellingham for I was on the hunt for flowers! We wound up at the Home Depot. They had some lovely specimens to choose from, however, not as many of the smaller containers of flowers like you would build a planter from. 🧐 Not sure why that is, but it’s something I’ve been noticing this year.

Here’s some of their offerings. Enjoy!

I did get a few flowers but had a set dollar amount I was willing to spend. In order to get the balance of what I really wanted, I’m going to have to shop around when I’m out and about.

Otherwise, it’s been a quiet day with beautiful sunshine!

My steps for today:

That’s gonna be it for now. Take care and enjoy the rest of your day wherever you are! 🙏🌏🙏

👣☕️🐑🕊️✝️🪻😎👍😁🌙🥱😴

BSB John 20:1-18

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,” she said, “and we do not know where they have put Him!”
Then Peter and the other disciple set out for the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down and looked in at the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.
Simon Peter arrived just after him. He entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there. The cloth that had been around Jesus’ head was rolled up, lying separate from the linen cloths. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in. And he saw and believed. For they still did not understand from the Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
(Mark 16:9–11)
Then the disciples returned to their homes. But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent down to look into the tomb, and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.
“Woman, why are you weeping?” they asked.
“Because they have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I do not know where they have put Him.”
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not recognize that it was Jesus.
“Woman, why are you weeping?” Jesus asked. “Whom are you seeking?”
Thinking He was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried Him off, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what He had said to her.