Easter greetings to you all! We want to wish everyone out there the best celebration of our risen Lord through this exciting season.
Our lives have not been as exciting as the life of Jesus was this holy week. We celebrated today that it was 62 and sunny! Please do not get to envious, we have endured two days of heavy non-stop rain and gloom. There are LOTS of people right now here in St. Louis and surrounding areas that are suffering through flooding waters. There have been many roads that close the flood gates, which literally means that a huge metal wall goes across the road and it is sand bagged. This obviously prohibits travel and even quarantines some communities. Growing up next to a river that flooded often, I am not too surprised by this event. So we are rejoicing in the sunny weather today and tomorrow. It is also supposed to get rainy again on Monday.
I seem to write a lot about the weather, which could tell you something about the state of our exciting (or not-so-much) lives. It actually does affect the extra-curricular lives of both of us. Steve has become more and more frustrated with St. Louis due to the weather. In MN when it started to get nice, you could count on it progressively getting nicer. Here, however, it gets nice then cold again. Never consistent. Steve has started his intramural softball season. However the first game was rained out. The weather allowed them to get two games in one week, and Steve was named the MVP of the season due to his amazing catch from third base. I'll set the scene.....the game had gone into extra innings, and both teams and the umpire were getting tired of playing. There were two outs and the go ahead runner was on second base. The ball was hit above Steve's head, but he managed to catch it while running with his back turned to the ball without looking. His team rushed over to him and threw him on their shoulders. It looked like they had just won the world series. For their team, who hasn't ever had a winning record, it was just as good.
We hope that there has been some event in your life that has felt this good.
Well, we are off to enjoy a meal at Cracker Barrel before heading to church to celebrate the washing of the feet and the reason we celebrate holy communion.
Have a blessed Easter celebration.
1 comment:
Happy Easter you two, I was thinking of you this morning before the kids get up and look for their baskets and eggs, I bet you two still want to do that! They are 14 and 16 now and still colored them last night. Claire says she will still come home in college to do it:) Thanks for the blog it is nice to keep up with your lives. Hope we see you sometime. Stay dry and we are praying for everyone involved in the flooding. Congrats on the MVP Steve how exciting. It is cold and snowy here 20-30's on easter morning. Love Lori M.
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