Easter - a time for celebration!

What a great day! If you're a Christian, this is one day to be celebrating. :) We have eternal life because of Christ dying on the cross for our sins...my sins. My husband's sins. My son's sins. What a blessing to serve such an amazing God who loves us so much that He sent His only son to die, so that we could have life.

We are still struggling with service times, Micah and nursery; today we attempted the 8:45, thinking he'd just go down a little late. Ten minutes in to service I was called to pick up Micah from nursery because he was melting down....and there went our Easter service without him. We tried to bring him in and after about 30 minutes he was done, so out we went to try and catch the rest of service on a TV monitor.

Even though we ended up at the other end of the church, essentially by ourselves watching the service on a screen, I was still touched and humbled as the story of the cross was told. One piece in particular that my church does is a testimony section where people share a sentence or two of how God has freed them, put it on a board (ex. "drug addiction" and "cancer") and then nail it to the cross. What a great visual reminder, accompanied by a song that touches me every time I hear it:

Overcome
(Desperation Band)

(Verse 1)
Seated above, enthroned in the Father's love
Destined to die, poured out for all mankind
God's only son, perfect and spotless Lamb
He never sinned but suffered as if He did

(Pre-Chorus)
All authority
Every victory is Yours

(Chorus)
Savior, worthy of honor and glory
Worthy of all our praise
You overcame
Jesus, awesome in power forever
Awesome and great is Your name
You overcame

(Verse 2)
Power in hand, speaking the Father's plan
You're sending us out, light in this broken land

(Bridge)
We will overcome
By the blood of the Lamb
And the word of our testimony
Everyone overcome

Thank you, Lord, for the gift of your son and eternal life for those that follow you!

After service we went home for a nice relaxing day and Micah decided he wanted to start standing unassisted during snack time. Please ignore the slightly annoying, proud mommy voice :) This boy is really wanting to start moving soon, I can just tell! I know you can't see his face in the first video, but he was just sooo proud of himself!

We had an amazing day, and even though it didn't go as planned, I'm learning more and more about flexibility. God has all in His hands, and I love that we serve a God who is bigger than anything we could ever imagine...including a little boy who is in separation anxiety mode and choosing to only nap once today, haha!