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To: ST.LOUIE1; JustAmy; Billie; DollyCali; dutchess; Aquamarine; GodBlessUSA; The Mayor; jaycee; ...

It's Caturday, so here is Amy's rascally resident cat making his appearance for Easter.

1,025 posted on 04/11/2009 7:17:18 AM PDT by Mama_Bear (T.E.A =Taxed Enough Already! Find a Tea Party near you on Tax Day!)

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April 11, 2009

The Day With No Name

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READ: Romans 8:18-25

If we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. —Romans 8:25

In Louisiana, a woman lies buried beneath a grove of 150-year-old oak trees in the cemetery of an Episcopal church. Only one word is carved on her tombstone: “Waiting.”

A friend of mine knows an elderly pastor who delivered a stirring Good Friday sermon titled “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Comin’.” In a cadence that increases in tempo and volume, his sermon contrasts how the world looked on Friday—when the forces of evil seemed to have triumphed—with how it looked on Sunday. The disciples who lived through both days never doubted God again. They learned that when God seems most absent, He may be closest of all.

The sermon skips one day, though—Saturday—the day with no name. What the disciples lived through in small scale, we now live through on cosmic scale. It’s Saturday on planet earth; will Sunday ever come?

That dark, Golgothan Friday can only be called good because of what happened on Sunday. Easter opened up a crack in a universe winding down toward decay. And someday God will enlarge the miracle of Easter to cosmic scale.

Meanwhile, we wait in hopeful anticipation, living out our days on Saturday, the in-between day with no name.

It’s Saturday. But Sunday’s comin.

Dark was the night—sin warred against us!
Heavy the load of sorrow we bore;
But now we see signs of His coming—
Our hearts glow within us, joy’s cup runneth o’er! —Camp
© Renewal 1941 Norman Camp.

God took the worst deed of history and turned it into the greatest victory.

Bible in One Year: 1 Samuel 17-18; Luke 11:1-28

1,026 posted on 04/11/2009 7:38:13 AM PDT by The Mayor ( In Gods works we see His hand; in His Word we hear His heart)

To: ST.LOUIE1; Mama_Bear; Billie; DollyCali; dutchess; Aquamarine; GodBlessUSA; OESY; NicknamedBob; ...

Happy Caturday, FRiends.

Happy Easter.

1,027 posted on 04/11/2009 7:42:20 AM PDT by JustAmy

To: Mama_Bear; JustAmy; MEG33; jaycee; Lady Jag; LUV W; gorush; ConorMacNessa; pollywog; ...

It's Yorkie Wabbit!
Wishing each of you
A wonderful Easter Weekend!

1,029 posted on 04/11/2009 7:57:33 AM PDT by yorkie

I wanna know if ‘Bad Penny’ has been bad or good? In other words, is Bad Penny getting any chocolate Easter eggs or not?
LOL!

1,034 posted on 04/11/2009 8:39:59 AM PDT by jaycee

To: FRiends; JustAmy; PrissyMissy; Mama_Bear; Billie; NicknamedBob; ST.LOUIE1; dutchess; ...

Happy Easter Weekend

Have A Wonderful Day

1,047 posted on 04/11/2009 9:16:23 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)

To: Mama_Bear; JustAmy; All

LOL! Thanks for the ping/post at #1025 & #1027.

Happy Easter to everyone on this thread of wonderful FReepers!

1,108 posted on 04/11/2009 4:53:59 PM PDT by PGalt

To: Mama_Bear; ST.LOUIE1

Hey ... that wascally cat wabbit made another appearance. :^ )

I love Bad Penny. Thanks for bringing him to Amy's Place today, Lori.

I'm soo happy that my Bro gave him to us.
Thanks, Bro.

Have a Happy Easter.

1,127 posted on 04/11/2009 9:11:51 PM PDT by JustAmy

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