Mother's Day

Grammy and Grandpa have returned, and we enjoyed Mother's Day picnic in their backyard.

My sister fleshes out these verses:

Proverbs 31:27 

She looks well to the ways of her household

    and does not eat the bread of idleness.

28 

Her children rise up and call her blessed;

    her husband also, and he praises her:

My own two blessings that call me Mom.

May Blossoms

Wild crabapple clothed like a spring bride.

Marshal tied up the raspberries and the pink crabapples in bloom.

May 10th front yard looking towards the tiny house.

Resurrection

Lydia made this empty tomb scene with her girls' group before Resurrection Day.

Matthew 22:31 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God: 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”

John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

Hidden Treasures

Nothing more delightful for the child in all of us than to hunt for hidden treasure.

2 My son, if you receive my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you,
2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding;
3 yes, if you call out for insight
    and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver
    and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.

I hear some jellybeans!

Tulip Garden

Seth's own Japanese Koi pond

Seth's permaculture garden.

Light in the Darkness

Before resurrection, death.  Before the light of glory, darkness.

Jesse and Megan family have kept a favorite tradition as we remember Jesus Christ descended into the darkness of the grave and death to set the dead in Christ free!
John 1:5, The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 12:46, I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
2 Corinthians 4:6, For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

A warm spring day as we descended into the cold cavern.  That is unmelted snow at the entrance.

Ice Sculptures!

Only the light we carry with us in this underground chamber.

Jesse sang this song and we answered, "We do.  It is.  He is!"
Listen to this!!
Andrew Peterson - Is He Worthy?

Roman Guard

Thursday evening, we started our reflection on the wonder of Christ's death and resurrection on a Passover 2000 years ago.  This year, all of Christendom recognized Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday on Passover again.  Gabe was invited to set the scene in a 40 year old production, The Last Days of Jesus passion play, in The Dalles.  He stood as a Roman Guard at the entrance of the auditorium as the community poured into the Last Supper with Jesus and his disciples and took the communion of bread and wine, remembering Christ's body and blood poured out for us.

April Showers

 A Pair of Sandhill Cranes on Sunday morning

Drenched Daffodils

Violets in the Yard's Yarrow Carpet

Violets in the April Rain Showers, Ready to Unfurl