Happy Easter to everyone celebrating the holiday today. Despite my kids being older, the bunny still came to the Turley house and left baskets overflowing with their favorite chocolates and candies, including a doggie basket for Luna. At our house, the Easter Bunny also leaves corny bunny riddles as a prerequisite for enjoying the baskets.
We are “double dippers” who celebrate Passover and Easter.
We will celebrate Easter tonight my family’s traditional lamb, saffron rice, and other dishes. We have an Easter Egg cake and other desserts to go with the horn-o-plenty left by the bunny.
Best wishes to everyone today and Happy Easter!
It is no coincidence that Easter and Passover are related and are celebrated in Springtime. A time of hope, buds, daffodils, fresh starts and sunshine, but mostly hope. You don’t have to be religious to feel the mood change almost overnight.
The Big Lying Media accused Trump of lying.
They refuse to tell the truth that Holy Joe lied.
We are at war with liars.
and whoopi said repeated;y the holocaust was not about race. jail her, fanny.
“u r the GOD of everything”
“HIM risen from the grave, from the grave”
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This former Bostonian (ok, 2 miles outside of Boston) I wish all a Happy Eastah.
I hope Easter Sunday was happy for all. It was for most living in America, but I am concerned for those Christians living in the Middle East and other countries where persecution is ongoing.
“Muslim terrorists launched raids on several Christian villages. They murdered 23 people—six were burned alive—wounded 10 and abducted five more, along with setting 28 homes on fire. — persecution.org, February 21, 2024 – Nigeria.
The abduction and Islamization of Christian girls in Egypt and is well-documented in a 2020 report by Coptic Solidary, “Jihad of the Womb”: Trafficking of Coptic Women & Girls in Egypt, which documents “the widespread practice of abduction and trafficking” of Coptic girls.”
I worry for peaceful Muslims and the rest of the world, but what I am seeing is a rogue President (Biden) of the US, which used to be a free nation, using Easter for his own purposes.
Thank you S. Meyer…..for that critical information!
Thank you, Cindy. Why don’t Christians, at least those I hear from, demonstrate outrage at the slaughter of their brothers and sisters in the Middle East and parts of Africa? Is a Christian in America of a different class? The Jewish publications I read mention Christian suffering, but I don’t see it here or in the media.
S. Meyers…..much of the outrage goes on at the local Christian churches with the congregations. Our Baptist church and the Southern Baptist Convention kept a watchful eye on missionaries and other Christians around the world. It was a suignficant part of our Christian education….but I do understand the frustration!
Sorry…I misspelled “Meyer”
S.Meyer….both of those above are me, Cindy!
Thank you, Cindy. Most of my friends know about these things and have some religious affinity. My ex-friends are walking zombies like the anonymi on the blog.
S.Meyer…..I may have told you one of my favorite memories from childhood. Before we went to school, every morning while at the breakfast table, my mother would read a scripture, then read the names of the missionaries who had birthdays that day. We would say a prayer for them, and other Christians around the world who might be suffering.as they tried to spread the Gospel, as well as all of God’s children everywhere. By the time we kids were teenagers, we would get antsy and impatient at breakfast, hoping to meet-up with friends before the school bell rang, but my mother in her calm way persisted and continued the ritual. I’m so glad she did.
Cindy, your mom sounds like a great woman.
Thank you!
The best coverage of this topic is regularly provided by the Vatican News site. I read it daily
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/africa.html
Nigerian Bishops: Our dear country is becoming a hostile killing field.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/africa/news/2024-02/nigerian-bishops-our-dear-country-is-becoming-a-hostile-killing.html
If you truly have concern for the terrorism, poverty and abusive political leaders within Africa, your disgust of Americans “complaints” of hardship, injustice and lack of equity will be that more magnified
Estovir, one doesn’t have to pull one down so another can rise. Americans are fine, mostly peaceful and generous. I believe their worst trait is naiveté. Americans do not need to suffer because of the problems elsewhere, and they do not need to have illegal immigrants flowing over their borders.
Less naiveté would end a lot of the smuggling across the border while permitting a reasonable number of immigrants and politically vulnerable people to enter. Less naive would lead to better American foreign policy, perhaps saving some of those 100,000 plus drug deaths, the rapes and murders from border traffic, and wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Charity is not the best or only way to help others. Sound governmental policy is far more helpful, and when it leads to economic growth, people need less charity.
S. Meyer: a very nice comment, sir.
That is good to hear, but the MSM and TV lack adequate coverage of such news. Unfortunately, that is where too many get their news. I want to hear about these atrocities everywhere, including those involving the Uyghur population in China and many population groups in Africa and elsewhere.
More Easter fun, and informative: https://historyfacts.com/arts-culture/article/the-strange-history-of-the-easter-bunny/.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson hoped for the resurrection, as seen in Jefferson’s touching letter to Adams on the occasion of when his wife, Abigail Adams, died.
To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 13 November 1818
The public papers, my dear friend, announce the fatal event of which your letter of Oct. 20. had given me ominous foreboding. tried myself, in the school of affliction, by the loss of every form of connection which can rive the human heart, I know well, and feel what you have lost, what you have suffered, are suffering, and have yet to endure. the same trials have taught me that, for ills so immeasurable, time and silence are the only medecines. I will not therefore, by useless condolances, open afresh the sluices of your grief nor, altho’ mingling sincerely my tears with yours, will I say a word more, where words are vain, but that it is of some comfort to us both that the term is not very distant at which we are to deposit, in the same cerement, our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved & lost and whom we shall still love and never lose again. God bless you and support you under your heavy affliction.
Christians, like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the US Founding Fathers, are a resurrection people, one of hope. That is the message of Easter.
Rise up!
Inspiring post, Estovir! Thank you.
The group that performed the song is a sibling trio. They are called “CAIN”, their last name, raised in Alabama, homeschooled with their father a pastor (like you) and they took to composing Christian music in their 20s. It is so encouraging to see young people like the CAINs invest such energy, enthusiasm and joy in talking about Jesus Christ. All three are beautiful: the male is very handsome, the sisters drop dead gorgeous. And yet, look at what they are doing with their time and energy.
https://www.caintheband.com/#about
Today at Mass we had young married couples with infants and toddlers all around us. They have faithfully attended Sunday Mass for over a year since we joined this mixed Jesuit parish, largely comprised of Latinos. They are baptizing their kids, teaching them to pray, and role modeling for them how a family thrives. This in Richmond where Catholics make up 3% of the population of Virginia
Be encouraged. The enemy thinks they are winning. But as in the words of St Paul, we know how it all ends, ” O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (1 Cor 15:55)
Blessings to you and yours Cindy
Estovir….thank you for the Cain kids’ information. What a great family. Good musicians, too!
And many thanks for the good wishes, and for the sweet and interesting peek into your home church. Sounds wonderful.
“Christians, like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and the US Founding Fathers, are a resurrection people . . .”
Yet again, you’re not even close.
Adams was a Unitarian — which openly rejects Biblical miracles such as the resurrection. Jefferson (as with many of the Founders) was a Deist, which also openly rejects Biblical miracles such as the resurrection.
You are now free to continue with your intellectually dishonest attempts to co-opt the Founders (and countless other secular values).
You are now free to continue with your intellectually dishonest attempts to co-opt the Founders (and countless other secular values).
Your ad hominem not withstanding, Sam, tell us what your relationship was like with John Adams. It must have been very secretive yet obviously intimate and more filial than that which Thomas Jefferson enjoyed given Jefferson reminded Adams that they will be with their deceased loved ones in the resurrection
Tell us again about your impressive intellectual capabilities. For the life of me I have yet to see any evidence of you having an IQ > 100.
“. . . Jefferson reminded Adams . . .”
Nice try, but historical scholarship is not done via cherry-picking part of a sentence from a personal letter.
Though that thoroughly dishonest gimmick is used by posers who wish to indulge fantasies such as: “the US Founding Fathers, are a resurrection people.”
BTW, you’ve completely muddled what Unitarians and Deists mean by rejecting “resurrection.”
OK, one more before I go. Chocolate Easter Bunny lies down on psychiatrist’s couch, and says, “I’m just feeling so hollow inside….”
lin…….and then the psychiatrist talked his ear off?? 🙂
I don’t know but he couldn’t hare a thing afterwards
Funny…
and a few more…
What kind of hotel rooms do chocolate bunnies stay in? Sweets.
What do you call a bunch of rabbits walking away from you? A receding hare line.
Why do people paint Easter eggs? It’s easier than trying to wallpaper them. 🙂
Easter at Chez Turley sounds divine!
A Joyous Eastertide to you and yours, and to all who gather here.
When I was little, my older sister (by 8 years) brought home a record of Johnny Mathis that had a lot of religious songs on them, which I heard over and over from her bedroom. One in particular rings true today. Don’t know the name of it, but as a little kid learning my geography, it stuck with me; something like, “children calling Him by many a different name; one Father, loving all the same.” Something we can all serve to remember today, even our cantankerous critics.
(P.S. the album is beautiful, as an adult, bought it on CD, which don’t know where it is now. My favorite song: “Deep River.” His smooth voice was truly wonderful.)
Happy Easter, ALL.
Lin, as for your learning geography, was there a geography song using the same melody, like those songs that help kids memorize state capitals?
Found it: Johnny Mathis and Barbra Streisand singing it together. Here is the link.
lin…great recording! I love both of their voices.
Cindy: Here’s to you and all the good, decent people on this blog site, irrespective of denominational faith:
Please share the answers to those riddles!
Lamb, yum! 😋 Hopefully with some mint jelly 😊 Happy Easter to you and yours!🐣
And may you and your family enjoy this special day in the life of Free Christians.Thank you for believing in our America and protecting our Constitution.