Even Nature Knows it is Easter

A couple of weeks ago a friend e-mailed me something neat that I wanted to share with you this Easter weekend. There are many signs that spring has arrived, from bunnies hopping, little chicks hatching out of their shell, tulips bursting through the ground into glorious blooms to warmer air and gentle breezes.

Did you know that nature knows when it's Easter? Look closely at the photo above (or the close-up below), the little pine branches at this time of year form little crosses. They start their new growth a couple weeks before Easter, even they know what this time of year is all about. While I love easter baskets, chocolate bunnies, speckled eggs, chicks and baby lambs, this weekend I will be celebrating a different lamb and what He did for us on the cross by laying down his life so we could have eternal life. I thought this post would be only appropriate.

Here is a closer look. For the original story that goes along with these photos click HERE.

I hope you will be surrounded by family and those you love this Easter. May this time bring you new growth, hope, joy and peace.

For those of you who have not yet entered the Clinique Giveaway, today is the last day! It closes at midnight tonight and I'll be drawing the winner tomorrow.

Happy Easter weekend!

More than Enough

I am humbly reminded again with this scripture below that I have more than enough, we have more than we need and no matter how much we worry or plan or save, we will always be provided for. He loves us and provides for us in more ways than we could ever hope for or imagine.

"Therefore! I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?

And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you - you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you as well." ~Matt. 5:1-2 6:19-21, 24-33

I really enjoy these quotes too, they should be a daily reminder for us that worry will only add stress and subtract years from our life.

"Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due."  ~Will Rogers

"To worry about tomorrow is to be unhappy today." ~Author unknown

Wash your worries away and remember that tomorrow always brings another new and glorious day.

Have a blessed Friday!