Easter

Such a beautiful day for Easter. Somehow, David was given the day off on Sunday! The kids were pretty proud of the cross they made. This year, they didn't really need help with it. I think I have mentioned it before but we read through "Journey To The Cross" by Helen Haidle this year, just like last year. Such a good preparation for Easter. It gave us a better understanding of what was going on. All day on Friday Jan and Alec were thinking and talking about what was going on during what time ("Jesus was walking out of the city with the cross now....It was dark now...Remember, there was an earthquake right now?").

Gorillas

For the last week Pati has been praying for all of the "little baby gorillas and the mom and daddy gorillas that they would be safe....". At breakfast we try to use the Voice of the Martyrs prayer map and the kids and I read up on a country and find out how we can pray. We had been reading about Columbia and had spent some time praying for the guerilla fighters there and for the people who are terrorized by them. Pati has been praying for baby gorillas ever since then and we all try to keep straight faces. Makes me think of the verse in Romans "...for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us...".