Tax day 2020 — NOT!!

In 1955 April 15th was designated as the final day to file your taxes.  Of course, this year it will be July.  But this year is totally crazy, no matter where you turn.  Few things are as they were.  Maybe, just maybe, we needed a bit of this to make us quit taking things for granted, or for looking at what is really important.  In 1817, the first American School for the deaf opens in Hartford CT (Kath!!!). In 1877 the first telephone was installed in Boston, and in 1878 Proctor introduced Ivory soap.  The Boston Marathon bombing was in 2013 (they were probably fighting over the telephone).  In 2019 Notre Dame caught fire, toppling the spire and destroying the roof.  But if we look at today, Snoopy says that FRIENDS make the good stuff even better.  And I know I have a super-lot of good things in my life! Including, or ESPECIALLY, my friends.

I picked up mom at 10am to bring her over here, but we had to make a drive-through to my bank on the way home.  We went through town and saw Larry the Cucumber in quarantine!  How fun!  We baked cookies, changed the lights on my deck from purple to purple (don’t ask), took a short walk, had the BEST ham for supper (Thanks Nate and Jen!!), watched MONKEY BUSINESS, and cleaned half the house.  I am ready to call it a night.

I listened to Micah McMillen at Old Mahoning Baptist Church.  This message was the EMPTY TOMB.  Jesus paid the price on the cross, offered pardon, and gave us peace.  Death is defeated, and it’s personal.  This was for ME, and for YOU.  He gave healing and forgiveness.  We all sin, either because it’s just our nature as humans, or by choice.  But we can all be restored because of the Empty Tomb.  We have Faith and Hope – which translates to Forsaking All I Trust Him and Having Our Past Erased.  Our future home is guaranteed with God, because of Jesus’ death.  So, as Mary did when she went to the empty tomb, rejoice, don’t weep.  It is finished; He paid the price.  We are redeemed.   

In 1892 Corrie ten Boom was born, in 1933 Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched!) and Roy Clark were born. 

I am happy to be home, to have a job to go back to, to have plenty of food (although skimping on Lysol spray!), happy to have family and friends and more love in my life than I could imagine.  And happy to rejoice over the empty tomb.  God Bless.