Sorry I haven't blogged lately but with 2 girls on 2 different softball teams that travel and a busy youth season, spare time to blog has been minimal.
So yesterday was the beginning of Holy Week. In the Gilliam family, it began with Sunday school and attending the traditional service at 11:00 where the children's choir at FFUMC paraded down the aisle with palm branches while the hand bells played and chancel choir sang. On into the service, the children sang two songs. It was a beautiful scene. As I sat in the choir loft gazing out over the congregation, I could see there were smiles on every face there. Isn't that the way it's suppose to be? The joy of children and their voices just makes us all glow doesn't it?
The school week has begun now as I type this and while driving back home this morning, I began thinking about the week that is ahead. Today will feature physicals this afternoon for both kids in preparation for summer camps and then onto a ballgame for Hanna. Tomorrow Anna Kate has a ballgame and then Wednesday is our routine schedule at church with children's choir and youth. Thursday, Anna Kate and I have to be at the school at 5:45 AM to depart for a field trip to Montgomery. Also Thursday, there will be two softball games in two different towns so Anna Kate and I will have to zip back home to get her suited up and onto the softball park while Wayne gets Hanna to her game. Thursday night is also Maundy Thursday service at FFUMC but I'm not 100% sure I will be able to swing the service. Friday, Good Friday, is the day I've been looking forward to since February. Well, I look forward to Good Friday every year but this year I am attending Secret Church at Brook Hills with David Platt. If you've ever read the book Radical, you will know what I am talking about but if you haven't, you should check out the website at http://www.brookhills.org/secretchurch/. Also, I have a couple of extra tickets if you want to attend. Either call, email, or comment here and I will let you know the details! I can hardly wait!!! After grabbing a couple winks, I will be heading to Guthrie Smith Park Saturday for the 3rd Annual Community Wide Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by FFUMC. It is so much fun and I love the fellowship and visiting with all those who attend! Then Saturday night, God willing, we are going to have dinner with some great friends and maybe play a little corn hole!!!
And then Sweet Sunday, Easter Sunday! My 2nd favorite day of the year! (My favorite is Christmas because if He hadn't been BORN, He couldn't have DIED). Anyway, Easter sunrise service is always special to me. As I drive to the service in my car, I imagine Mary running to the tomb of Jesus when dawn was breaking. I imagine her heart pounding with anticipation to place the ointments she had prepared on the body of her beloved. And to her astonishment, the stone has been rolled away. In past sunrise services, in the still of the morning, the birds are singing, the water is falling from the fountain in the courtyard and it is just serene. It is almost as if the world is standing still awaiting the stone to be rolled away. If you have never been to a sunrise service, where ever you are, I encourage you to attend one this year. To me, it just makes the celebration of the risen Savior more real. As I type this, I can feel the emotion of the entire event well up in me.
So that is what is planned for this crazy Holy Week for the Gilliams. What do you have planned? I am hoping to get a couple minutes each day to revive my blog but I can't make any promises! Happy Holy Week Yall!
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