Wandering through life one season at a time
This Holy Week Timeline will help you tie the four gospels together during the last week of Jesus.
Justin Taylor has reconstructed the events in his Holy Week series (work your way backwards).
Blue Letter Bible has a long list of Scripture Verses for the Passion Week.
We will also be reading through The Final Week of Jesus by Max Lucado.
A little peek into our learning room:
We are reading Grandpa’s Box leading up to Easter. It is the Story of Redemption in storybook form.
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Learning about art is fun when you are Looking at Paintings.
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These paper birds will look so cute scattered about the house.
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Funny Girl is starting Romeo & Juliet with this free No Fear Shakespeare translation. I put together a folder of work for her from this wonderful site (webquest, vocabulary, literary terms, character map, and study guide).
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I am thinking about letting everyone plant a Garden in a Glove.
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What is going on in your little learning room?
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
How does your family make Easter meaningful?
Do you participate in Lent?
According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…
I grew up in a church culture that did not focus on the Resurrection at Easter. It was all about fancy dresses, egg hunts, and the Easter Bunny.
(I know, I KNOW, it doesn’t make sense to me either. But I didn’t know any different.)
…to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
I am so thankful that my children are growing up in the shadow of the cross and the light of the resurrection.
They are learning that Christ is at the center of everything we do.
Though you have not seen Him, you love Him.
When it comes to holidays, like Easter, I do not have religious childhood traditions to pass on to my kids.
We have fun adding new things each year (and it is double the fun since it is new for my parents as well.)
Though you do not now see Him, you believe in Him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
We are not Catholic, and our church does not follow the Liturgical calendar, but I find that there are many things to glean from others.
I am busily browsing resources, trying to map out the coming weeks.
He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you who through Him are believers in God…
I would love for my readers to chime in and share.
How do you guide your family to the Cross and celebrate the Resurrection?
Do your family’s traditions reflect your childhood, or are you also walking a new path?
…who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
I Peter 1:3-5, 8-9, 20-21, 25
This was my Facebook status earlier today:
Doesn’t it sound like we had little bluebirds helping us fold the towels?
Here is a glimpse of our reality earlier today:
Yet my Facebook status still remained true.
Our day was good or bad depending on where you focused.
We chose to focus on the Holy and had a lovely day in spite of ourselves.
The same can be said of those sacred events that took place so long ago:
There was nothing good on that day.
And yet there was everything Good on that day.
I am eternally grateful that there was a Really Bad, Really Good Friday!
Our Easter celebrations have very little to do with the Easter Bunny these days, but my kids still enjoy getting a basket full of goodies.
I realized several years ago, when we only had 4 littles, that I could not keep up with the expense & sheer quantity of little junky trinkets that went along with filling traditional baskets.
I decided to switch to one family basket instead. I think our first one was in a wicker laundry basket.
The beauty of this is that I can fill the basket with larger items for the entire group. I usually try to stick with things that can be played with outside. This year I snagged this deal for only $2!!
Each child gets a chocolate cross, then I add a few other candies and maybe a book & craft from our local Christian bookstore.
I can fill a large basket for under $25 and my kiddos love it. That is less than $5 per child, which wouldn’t go very far in an individual basket.
My favorite thing about changing to one basket is that it emphasizes something very important to our family –> that we share with each other and enjoy life together!
May your Easter be filled with the power of the Resurrection!!
Run on over to We Are That Family for tons of great tips!
