Project....

I am just finishing Julie & Julia. It is a woman who decided to cook her way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking  by Julia Child.

It has made me long for a "project" of my own but for the life of me I don't know what it would be. I like to cook but not enough to cook my way through a cookbook.

I thought about doing a blog on women of the Bible but that has been done then done again. There is a series of book about the bad women of the Bible. In face it is called Bad Girls of the Bible. I can relate to those women. In fact I love Rahab with unnatural affection because she was as bad as you could be, a prostitute but somehow managed to be one of five women mentioned in the lineage of Jesus. Doesn't that say something?

I like bad women I suppose because it shows that we are not perfect and it make it seem that God has a sense of humor. Imagine His son being the descendant of a  prostitute. It kinda boggles the mind.

That would be kinda cool. Write about "bad girls" of the Bible. I can base it from the books. Work me way through the books like Julie worked her way through the cookbook. I would want to find out as many details about them as I could. Ummmm...that is a thought.

My other thought was to write about real women. Not Mother Theresa but REAL women. Women who go day to day and not expect any recognition, they love their families, they love their communities, they love their Lord. They go day by day and not expect to be changing a persons life in the process. Those are the women I truly admire. The one who stay after church and tell you they love you and give you a hug just when you need it. The one who teaches Sunday School every Sunday because she wants children to love the Lord.

Maybe that will be my next project.

We shall start with the The Bad Girls of the Bible  and go from there.

I HAVE A PROJECT!!!!!

By the way the Bad Girls are books by Liz Curtis Higgs. They are wonderful and funny and thought provoking. Read them, read them now!!!                   -

Easter

Easter is one of those holidays that is meant to be spent with family. With both of our families two hours away hubby and I usually spend the day by ourselves. We enjoy each others company so usually it's not a problem.

Today we got to spend it with family. My best friend's family has adopted us in every since of the word. We are included in family events and holidays. Even a recent wedding.

Family has always been important to me- I grew up around the corner from my grandparents. I love spending time with my family. When I married I moved two hours away from everything I ever knew. Although we try to visit family as often as possible it's impractical to go all the time. So I am grateful when families allow us to share in their holiday
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I found this in by list of drafts...I guess I never posted it.

That family still takes care of us. The whole family- sisters, nieces, nephews, mom and dad. It seems that we have known the for all time.
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The title of this post is Easter. I suppose back then I was going to have a cleaver little thing about Easter but for the life of me I do not know what it was.

As a Christian Easter is important. It's the day that we celebrate when Christ came from the grave. What a wonderful story. One time a friend asked me if there was another sacrifice that wouldn't have required Christ to die. I immediately said "NO!!" What else would have been great enough? I thought of Job who lost everything, wives, children all his material possessions and at the end  of his story we find out that he had more after the tragedy then before. We can give everything we have but still get more, if we give our life THAT is everything. After we give our life there is nothing else to give. We can't get it back. Christ was born so that he could die for us.

It is hard to remember that Easter is not about the bunnies and eggs and candy (although the candy is a yummy part of it). As much as we remember "The Reason for the Season" we must remember the reason why we celebrate Easter.