We’ve always been an odd sort of couple in some ways. Just ask anyone who knows us. Over fifty years of marriage we’ve tended to commit to, get involved in, plan, orchestrate, and participate in just about every opportunity to serve that came our way. Now, some might say we over committed, that we stretched ourselves too thin, paid a cost that was too great. While that may in some small way be true (you might want to get our kids opinion) we probably wouldn’t change a thing. Most of this over achieving practice began early in our marriage. It just sorta crept up on us. We became heavily involved in church activities including picking up kids on the church bus, three times a week, working at church camp, teaching classes, participating in Bible hour and vacation Bible school, and then leading the youth group. I can’t even tell you how many pots of chili I made on a very small stove at our fall retreats or how many miles Big Al drove that barely road worthy bus. There were banque
Easter was already weird. Who would have ever imagined when 2020 began fresh and new that we would all be staying home due to forced quarantines and social distancing as a result of a pandemic? Who would have believed that the entire country would just shut down? Who could have imagined that we would be worshipping from our homes livestreaming with our fellow believers? Before now we all thought pandemics were a thing of the past, only to be read about in the history books. But 2020 has shown us different. All of these things we would not have believed could happen did. So, Easter 2020 found us all at home having small family gatherings with egg hunts for a single child in some cases. For our family this Easter included four generations of us confined to the same house. The mix includes 6 adults and one toddler. We decided to make the best of this Easter by worshipping our Lord and Savior, continuing with an egg hunt for our great granddaughter, Brighton, and having a t