STILL LOOKING FOR SPRING?

THIS IS A SPRING/EASTER TABLESCAPE FROM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.
I will have a new one Sunday, as my daughter will be
visiting from Illinois. I am waiting for her as we will 
create the tablescape together.
Now I hope you will enjoy this look back!
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I KNOW SOME OF YOU, IN OTHER AREAS,  ARE STILL LOOKING FOR SPRING.

IT IS FINISHED! HE LIVES!

HE LIVES!

AND

WE ARE REDEEMED!

Last year I published the post below.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011

THE GIFT IS GIVEN!!

This is the season in which

we celebrate the greatest Gift

in Christendom!

While we celebrate the birth of 

The Christ Child

This is only the beginning.

The Sacrifice is not complete

 The Promise is not yet fulfilled

 While we celebrate and make merry

 We must remember in the distance

 A shadow looms

It is more than three decades 

In the future

Til the fulfillment of God's 

Gift To Mankind

When I display this beautiful Boehm Nativity I feel compelled to also display this beautiful crystal Cross.

I never want to get so caught up in the beauty and sweet spirit of the Nativity

that I forget the promise given on that

"First Christmas"

was fulfilled on

"Calvary"

I pray our Lord's richest blessings for you, your loved ones and friends during this Holiest of Seasons.

Savannah Granny, Ginger

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I pray you will enjoy the reminder of the Greatest Gift and the fact that our Lord's Sacrifice fulfills the 

Gift and the Promise from God!

We have only to receive that Gift!

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Why do we say “Good” Friday?

I PRAY THAT EACH OF YOU

HAVE A BLESSED GOOD FRIDAY

AND 

A JOYFUL EASTER!

My dear friend Pat of 

GROWING OLD WITH GRACE

has graciously agreed to

Guest Host for me today.

Pat has written a beautiful tribute

to one of the 

HOLIEST DAYS OF CELEBRATION

in CHRISTENDOM!

Good Friday...the Friday before Easter Sunday... marks the day on which Jesus Christ the Son of God was crucified on the cross for the sins of the world.  Yes, for you, for me, for the entire world! 

Luke 23:44 - Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. 45 Then the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. 46 And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, "Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’" Having said this, He breathed His last.

So just what is Good Friday, anyway?

It is "celebrated" traditionally as the day on which Jesus was crucified.   There are some who say Christ died on Wednesday, others claim it was Thursday, and still others are sure it was Friday.  Is it really that important to know what day of the week Christ was crucified?  If it were so important, then God's Word would have clearly communicated which day and at what specific time. What is important is that He did die and that He physically, bodily rose from the dead.  Just as important is the reason He died—to take upon Himself the punishment that all sinners deserve.  

John 3:16 and John 3:36 both proclaim that if we put our trust in Him we will have eternal life! This is true no matter which day He was crucified.  The Bible does not tell us as Christians to remember Christ’s death on a particular day.  The Bible gives us a choice in these matters.   So, instead of remembering Jesus’ death on a certain day annually, the Bible tells us to remember Christ’s death by observing the Lord’s Supper.   In First Corinthians 11:24-26 He declares, “...do this in remembrance of me...for whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.”

Many Christians spend this day in fasting, prayer, repentance, and meditation on the agony and suffering of Christ on the cross. 

So, as I asked in the title to this post, why do we say Good Friday when it was such a somber day?   What the Jewish authorities and Romans did to Jesus was certainly not good (see Matthew chapters 26-27).   However, Christ’s death resulted in the ultimate good!  Romans 5:8; “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”  In First Peter 3:18  we are told, “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.  He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.”

There isn’t just one answer to my question.  There were several possible origins for the name "Good Friday" to be found on the Internet.   One thought is that it may have come from the Gallican Church in Gaul (modern-day France and Germany).  The name "Gute Freitag" is Germanic in origin and literally means "good" or "holy" Friday.  Another possibility is the substitution of “good” for “God” in "God's Friday," since at that time is was thought God’s name was too Holy to say aloud. 

The explanation or possibility that I prefer to believe is that is was the day (or evening) Christ Jesus died for the sins of all mankind - which is by far the greatest "good" anyone has ever done (or ever could do) for anyone else.  It is when God's covenant was fulfilled, and all people could repent and have the hope of everlasting life if they would chose to accept Jesus' sacrifice, imitate his ways, and obey his Word. 

We can thank Him for dying for us and taking on our sin and know that Good Friday truly was good.  Hallelujah!

*Guest post written by Pat Mallett, aka GraceinAZ  - Growing Old With Grace blog.  My thanks to Ginger for allowing me to share this with all of you on her blog!

Pat, Thank you so much for writing this beautiful post. I know all of us are touched, inspired and learned a lot through your skillful guidence through the day's meaning and importance.
Please go by and visit Pat at Growing Old With Grace. She is a great wordsmith with the ability to take us back into history, look at today's world with wonder and has an awesome sense of humor.


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Happy Spring!!

 Well, It Finally Got Here!

While I am trying to bring a little

Spring into the homestead

I keep getting sidetracked by the Emergency Room

so I am reposting an Easter Table from 2011.

I hope you will enjoy this reprise
while I work on this year's STUFF!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011

Simple Easter Supper

Vintage Dishes Not The Food!!

Let's set up for a simple supper with friends to usher in the Holy Week.

Let's get started with Bob's free flowers. 

You can read more about the free flowers HERE.

Perk up last weeks roses.

You can revive fading flowers by submerging them in cold water, If they are not too far gone.
I was able to reuse these from a dozen.

Choose a container.

This was a thrift store find many years ago.

Aren't they cute?

Oasis in a food container. Bunnies, have a hairline crack.
Now to set the table.

The Blue Onion pieces are used daily and will be moved.
The beaded runner is from Pier One after Easter Sale.
The flowers in the bunnies are last week's.
Finished centerpiece on milkglass cake plate.

See how nice the roses look. They are a week old.

Placemat Dillard's 70% off sale. Large dinner plate, Dollar Tree. Using for greater contrast.

Dinner plate Homer Laughlin. Wedding gift 1958. Vintage enough?

Bunny plate, Pier One, same sale.

He keeps giving me the eye! I think he's flirting with me. I think he is cute too!

Looks like an egg cup. Not, we will having fruit. Kim brought these to me in March.

The sterling is Wallace's "Waltz of Spring". Did any of you pick out a silver pattern when you were a senior in high school. In the 50's this was the custom. This is the pattern I chose when I was l8 years old. I didn't have the money to purchase any at the time. I forgot about it and years later decided to see if I could find it. Yep!! I found it. It is now discontinued and is vintage!

The blue tinted goblet was part of our 12 day's of Christmas gift. You can read about it here

Now let's just look around before our friends arrive.

Palm fronds to remember the Palm Sunday.

These little houses are part of a lighted village. This I am using what happened to be on the first floor.
No one in this house felt like bringing the boxes down.

My daughters will laugh when they see I had this much stuff already downstairs.
Most was acquired after last Easter.

Better view of the cake plate. 

This is Bob and me. He's sooooooo sweet! Most of the time.

HA, HA! THE YOKES ON YOU!!! These are salt and pepper shakers. HomeGoods, this year.

I have used these votives previously but I love the white and It goes well here. Dollar Tree finds.

I truly hope that you have enjoy helping me set the table. Please leave a comment, they are like colored Easter eggs.

Have a blessed Easter Week!

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MY FAVORITE POSSESSION

I am not quite up to a project at this time.  SO! I am enjoying looking at all your wonderful and inspirational projects. I will probably be copying some of them the real soon.

For now, I thought I would share my favorite possession with you. It is definitely vintage.

Do you know those people who can take nothing and create a thing of beauty. I knew a lady who could take a ball of twine/thread and create the most beautiful and unique things you would ever see.

These beautiful crochet gloves were made by my mother, Vivian Anderson. 

She made them for me to wear for Easter. 

I was sixteen years old.

She was a crocheting machine. She made beautiful pieces for all her grandchildren and dozens and dozens of doilies and such. 
Unfortunately, she called me one day, from Atlanta, all excited.  She sold a huge box of those pieces at a garage sale. I asked if there were any left. I was able to save a very few. 

I had to take this off the wall to avoid the glare

That Easter I felt like "the belle of the ball"(I guess that is not an appropriate attitude for Easter). Only saying how happy I was to be wearing these beautiful gloves.

The photos are not good but the gloves are awesome!

This is the glare when the frame was on the wall. You can see the swing arm lamp by the bed. 

I see these gloves each morning when I awake. I can remember seeing my Momma, sitting, rocking, crocheting and watching the "World Series".  She refused to answer the phone during a series game. Precious Memories.
I hope you enjoyed a glimpse of fashion in 1956!
Oh, in case you are wondering.  Yes, I did wear a hat!


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