Happy Easter everyone. We had a good day today. Julie got some fancy dresses on the side of the road from some crack dress pusher a few weeks ago. You know the drill, she just *couldn’t* resist. Well they turned out pretty cute. Hopefully they’ll wear them more than once.
After a fun day of watching 8 2/3 year-olds at church, we came home to get ready for some dinner. We had invited her parents over for easter dinner. Our original idea didn’t work. So we started scrambling for a plan B. We found some salmon in the freezer. I pulled the van far enough out of the garage so that I could wheel the old barbecue out. I fired the thing up, it got a little warm, and promptly ran out of fuel. So I ran upstairs and did some quick research on the fastest way to cook some salmon. I put it in a glass pan and threw it in the oven. Julie found some shrimp in the freezer that we put in as well. All in all, it turned out to be a great meal. We had salmon, shrimp, crescent rolls, funeral potatoes, and jello.
After the meal, we headed over to Dave and Marilyn’s house and, as we often do, overstayed our welcome. I was able to hide some eggs in the basement and the girls went crazy looking for them. Abby got at least half of them — she counted.
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Well, enjoy the pictures. And I’ll leave you with this profound quote from William Jennings Bryan:
A few weeks before, someone had planted a little watermelon seed in the ground. Under the influence of sunshine and showers that little watermelon seed had taken off its coat and gone to work; it had gathered from somewhere two hundred thousand times its own weight and forced that enormous weight through a tiny stem and built a watermelon. On the outside it had put a covering of green, within that a rind of white, and within that a core of red, and then scattered through the red little seeds, each capable of doing the same work over again.
Where did that little watermelon seed get its tremendous strength? Where did it find its flavouring extract and its colouring matter? How did it build a watermelon?
Until you can explain a watermelon, do not be too sure that you can set limits to the power of the Almighty or tell just how He would do it. The most learned man in the world cannot explain a watermelon, but the most ignorant man can eat a watermelon and enjoy it.
God has given us the things that we need and He has given us the knowledge necessary to use those things, and the truth that He has revealed to us is infinitely more important for our welfare than it would be to understand the mysteries that He has seen fit to conceal from us.