Happy Easter Eve!

I read a reflective devotional this past week about Jesus’ resurrection signaling His return to the Father’s house to prepare for the Ultimate Wedding — when He comes back again for His beloved people, His church that He calls the bride of Christ. This wedding cost the Father a great price: the blood of His Son. Just as we wait for our future mates with purpose and wisdom, all the moreso shall be anticipate our Eternal Bridegroom’s arrival with faithfulness, purity, and expectancy.

Revelations 19:7 has become sort of the banner verse of DFH. Let us make ourselves ready…

And, here are two DFH Easter excerpts to share. Excuse the somebunniness. What was I thinking? :P

My Dear Special Somebunny—
Easter weekend, ’tis. Be to our Christ, our Savior. He
is alive; He is living; He is life-breathing. And oh
how much He loves me … so much He gave me you.
…
There dwells in me a certain contentedness, joy,
simplicity in my life these past weeks. The security
of Him and him. Not needing things … or stuff.
But being able to just be—there has been comfort
in little. Less has been more. I feel full. Bounty in
paucity … Abundance in losing, forsaking self, giv-
ing, denying, caring.
…
I’m meeting my Jesus early tomorrow morning at
sunrise. I can’t wait. :)
…
❤,
Grace

Happy Easter, you special some~bunny!
Isn’t it unique how Easter’s in March this year? It’s
a deliciously lovely day to be celebrating the resur-
rection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. :) He
makes us more than conquerors. A much-needed
reassurance, given that the last two weeks have been
really difficult for me in body and mind.
…
The Lord has been teaching me that He has given
every spiritual blessing and that the task remaining is
my receiving. What comfort in that thought—God
holds in His hand everything that I could desire, ask
for, imagine. But I don’t believe enough. Did you
know we can believe and still have unbelief? Lord,
take away my unbelief.
…
Faith is a mysterious thing … God, help me to
believe completely that all that I see now is tem-
porary—that you will take me from this place and
bring me to another place. Give me love to endure
all things, hope all things, never fail. I also believe in
you. I believe God’ll bring me you. :) He will, he will.
…
Love you now, love you to the end…
…
Because He lives,
Grace
Easter ’02

Today is DFH’s official national release. Thanks much for the support and encouragement thus far…

We look forward to seeing how God will work and move in the days to come.

… from a Trinidad gal …

I will pray for your strength, health, faith, work, relationships, heart, dreams, mind, choices, fears and more, EVERYDAY.

I will be confident, loving, caring, strong, submissive, faithful, God fearing, obedient, courageous, and respected.

With God as the foundation in our relationship and as long as we are holding hands, there is nothing we can’t do TOGETHER.

We will trust in His timing, we can rest in Him knowing that He has good things in store for our future.

I want you to know that I don’t plan on settling for anything less than you. I am working on being the right woman for you.

Excerpts from a devo I read this week written by one of our church members… Good stuff.

“It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Matthew 20:26-28)

As a single adult, there are many times when I long to be married to a beautiful wife and have some great kids. That is what I want. At this point in my life, however, God has not blessed me in this way. Does that mean that I should just sit and wait on the Lord like I am in a doctor’s office, waiting for my turn?

The question I struggle with is how much I should serve or how much of my time and money I should give. Here, too, Jesus gives us a great example. He gave up everything to serve us.

Our young adult pastor gave a memorable illustration this past week that I thought worth sharing…

He relayed the story of Christmas last year and it being the first time that his 2-year old daughter was old enough to open presents. 6 months before, he happened to be at Toys R’ Us when they were going out of business and got this awesome Barbie jeep on clearance that he knew she would absolutely love. He hid it in his closet for half of a year just waiting to give it to her on Christmas Day.

That morning, as the family began to unwrap gifts, the first one she picked to open happened to be a 1-dollar horn from Target, just something to put under the tree. But for some reason, she became attached to it, despite the fact that the front piece broke off soon after and didn’t care for the other presents with her name on them.

Daddy kept coaxing her to dig into the rest of her pile but she seemed content in blowing her cheap, plastic horn. Finally, he couldn’t contain himself any longer and picked her up and carried her to the room where he had wanted to surprise her with the jeep. Needless to say, she couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw that Dad had wanted to give her something grander than anything she could have ever imagined.

How often do we cling so tightly to our little good-for-nothing horns, oblivious to the wild blessings that our Father is waiting to bestow on us if we only let Him?

Be it relationships, our future spouses, careers, or any facet of our lives, He desires the absolute best for us if we surrender our petty grasps on self and our limited perspectives. Yes, there will be questions and doubts and waiting. But rest in the One that wills good to His own.