A Bundle of Myrrh

St. Lawrence is one of the saints I really enjoy remembering for this reason:

“After the death of Sixtus, the prefect of Rome demanded that St Lawrence turn over the riches of the Church. Saint Ambrose is the earliest source for the tale that St Lawrence asked for three days to gather together the wealth. He worked swiftly to distribute as much Church property to the poor as possible, so as to prevent its being seized by the prefect.On the third day, at the head of a small delegation, he presented himself to the prefect, and when ordered to give up the treasures of the Church he presented the poor, the crippled, the blind and the suffering, and said these were the true treasures of the Church.” wikipedia

That would have taken great faith. For doing this he was martyred, grilled alive.

For no reason in particular Phil chose this day to clean our grill. Maybe this is a good day to yearly keep that practice.

Weeelllllll, I FINALLY got this year’s Easter photos taken! Since Esther and Gerhardt were in Texas during Easter I waited until they returned to even try this. Also, we have our Martha with us this year for the photos. Someone we didn’t get last year since she was still dans la Tummy.

The weeks passed, and so did Easter but we had to have a family photo taken for our Church Picture Directory a couple weeks ago. I put the babies in their Easter clothes and knew I’d better kill these two birds with one stone.

I think it is really amazing that we have the same kind of tree in the yard at our new parsonage that we did in our former so I can continue with the same looking portraits! Crazy right?

So here are the pictures I got this year. Perfectly perfect.

Easter 2016 by Slidely Slideshow

“To you, the Comforter, we cry,
To you, the gift of God most high,
True fount of life, the fire of love,
The soul’s anointing from above.”

We observed Pentecost today. A simple lunch of; Roasted Chicken, Greek Salad and Rising Rolls. I shaped one of our rolls like a cute little dove but Phil and Lily said it looked like a fish. I guess a fish is appropriate too though right?

For supper we will have a couple over for Hamburgers, Sparkling Wine and Cherry Pie.

Blessed Pentecost Sunday to you all!