Easter Eve Eve

Well, tonight is the eve of Easter eve.  It's Friday night and I know that with the excitement of the party and company on Saturday night that I won't get on this blog.  Anyway, a few thoughts here...

Easter has always been my favorite holiday.  I love the promise of eternal life that Easter represents.  I think of Easter nearly every time I take communion and every time I go to a funeral.  But I also love the promise of New Life that Easter represents for the today.  If our culture would allow it, I think I would switch how I celebrate Easter with Christmas... with lavish dinners, presents and celebrations, getting together with family, lots of parties, etc.  I do love Christmas, but I love Easter, too.  So anyway, I hope to make this fantastic holiday, Easter, a BIG DEAL at our house.

There have been two times in my life that I felt an incredible sense of victory in Jesus.  One was when the twins were born. 

My Heart Hurts

http://www.forhisgloryoutreach.org/

I absolutely can not get this organization out of my mind.  I am acquaintances with a family out of Aurora, Nebraska who adopted two boys from this orphanage and sent me an e-mail weeks ago asking for financial donations and prayer.  I am an anxious person by nature, and this type of stuff is so incredibly hard for me.  My heart just hurts and I feel totally helpless! Surfing around their website brought to me another harsh reality: For every child who has made it to their "forever home" in America or Canada or wherever, there is another child to quickly fill their place at the orphanage.  For every child we see smiling on the news at a happy reunion with their adoptive families, there are several more children still in Haiti.  Some were orphans before the quake, some were not.  Ug.

My goal here is not to be a "Debby Downer," but to call you to pray pray pray for these children regardless of any pending adoption.  And in the case that they do have families in the US or elsewhere who are STILL trying to get their children home, please stop and say a prayer for them, too.  I learned some interesting things here: I found the story about Ronel particularly interesting from several perspectives, as well as her comments regarding UNICEF.(Ronel's adoptive parents have a blog here.)

I am studying the book of Esther right now and we have been chronicling what it would be like to lose both father and mother.  Devastating!