Yesterday it was perfectly legal to bury candy in your backyard, make your kids spend long hours in the sun looking for it and digging it up, and then limiting their candy-intake to three pieces while you consumed 10lbs of it.
Isn't this place great?
Do you remember doing Easter hunts when you were a kid? (Or perhaps yesterday for us older kids.) Do you remember the anticipation before the hunt? The excitement of the search? The intensity with which you scoured the ground? The joy of finding an egg, candy, bunny or basket?
MATTHEW 13:45-46 - NIV (Click to read)
As Christians, we have already found our Easter basket. Only instead of a six-pack of coma-inducing, sugar-laden Peeps, we have an entire Body of believers filled with amazing brothers and sisters to join us on our journey. Instead of a squirt gun, bubble blower, or other toy that was probably going to break within the next 20 minutes, we have a Bible to serve every purpose and need we will ever encounter. Instead of guilt or a stomach ache from consuming way too much of the basket's contents, euphoria and jubilation pour out in abundance every time we dip inside. Instead of a two foot chocolate rabbit that we know we shouldn't eat all at once but rarely have the self control to not, we have Jesus, the greatest Friend, Leader, and Savior imaginable. And even though it's a basket we only discover once, its contents will never run out and its effect on our lives is eternal.
Enjoy your basket. Use your basket. And never forget what you found at the end of the most important hunt you'll ever partake in.
THINGS TO NOTE: Women's Midweek // Mud Hen's Frenzy! - Thursday to Sunday
THIS WEEK:
Monday - managed to not eat all of its leftover candy and rewarded itself by eating another piece of candy
Tuesday- Pray for the funds we raise through the Mud Hen games to go to do great things for God's Kingdom
Wednesday – Women's 7:00 Midweek at the FQ
Thursday – Mud Hen's DAY ONE
Friday- NO Bible Talk - Please work the game to support our brethren = MHD2
Saturday – MHD3
Sunday - Normal 10:00 Sunday Service at the MSC // MHD4
Brett "If I were a chocolate bunny, I'd probably nibble off my own ears" Hibbler
When you order frogs legs at a restuarant what do they do with the rest of the frog ? - Well surely they just throw the rest of the frog away and take it to the tip.
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