Happy Easter!

I would first like to wish everyone a very Happy Easter! I truly love this time of year, it's like Christmas, when everyone has their eyes and hearts set on our Savior. The past couple of months, well, like most in our home, have been really busy. I'm taking 2 classes, both with demands on my time with reading and the Geography course demands coloring, which I love to do, but it takes so much time. March was busy with Jay and I taking a course with the church we have decided to become members of. The class was very good, extremely enlightening, and I'm so glad we did, it helps me to understand how and where I want to walk in this life.

With Easter upon us, and the weather in Kansas getting warmer, I can see the changes in my family, the large changes and the small ones. The kids are getting bigger, I can't see it physically, but I can see it in the fact that I've got to purchase new pants, because the old ones are getting shorter, and tighter. I'm facing a dilemma, do I purchase new pants, or just wait for shorts season, which, in Kansas, could be next month. But, do they look like nerds with pants that could be considered high-waters? I mean, boys don't wear capries!

Kansas has less than a month to go with the school year, and I can't believe that my little boy will be finished with Kindergarten - and summer vacation will be here. Before that, we are expecting a visit from Auntie Erin and Mike, Emily & Megan. It's a special Christmas gift from Mom to Erin and I and it's going to be a lot of fun. Don't know what we are going to do yet, since none of the pools or water parks will be open at that time, but there will be something, I'm sure, and to have a week off from work, and be able to stay home is always a refreshing thing.

I started listening to KLOVE every day in my classroom, and there are a couple of songs I've come to love, one is REVELATION by Third Day - and the other is HERE I AM by Downhere. The lyrics in these songs touch me and cause me to fall to my knees. I'd like to share the lyrics with you, and hopefully, you can sense the place I've been in the past few months, just by what they are saying.

"Here I Am"
When setbacks and failures, and upset plans,
Test my faith and leave me with empty hands,
Are you not the closest when it's hardest to stand?
I know that you will finish what you began.

These broken parts you redeem,
Become the song, that I can sing

Here I am, Lord send me,
All of my life, I make an offering,
Here I am, Lord send me,
Somehow my story, Is part of your plan

"Revelation" by Third Day
My life,
Has led me down the road that's so uncertain
And now I am left alone and I am broken,
Trying to find my way,
Trying to find the faith that's gone
This time,
I know that you are holding all the answers
I'm tired of losing hope and taking chances,
On roads that never seem,
To be the ones that bring me home

Give me a revelation,
Show me what to do
Cause I've been trying to find my way,
I haven't got a clue
Tell me should I stay here,
Or do I need to move
Give me a revelation
I've got nothing without You