| Happy Easter!
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from the
Easter
Buddies |
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| (Tina B,
Cindy L, Sheri L, Laurie M, and Cindy W) |
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| 115 bags was our final tally this year. What
a remarkable thing it is to even consider that. I will state yet again
Easter Buddies was started after the tragic death of one of our Easter
Buddy's husband, Jerry Lefeld, and an acknowledgement by us that we had
been blessed in order to be a blessing. Too much of life has a way of
trying to lull us into thinking it is all about ourselves, when, in
truth, it is not! Easter is the ultimate demonstration that our lives
are not our own. We were bought with a price ("For you are bought with a
price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are
God's." 1 Corinithians 6:20) - that of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
So we take this time out to on purpose do something that is not about
us. Something to reach out to others who are hurting. Something to reach
out to those who are in this time going through something very hard. We
do this not because we have things all figured out. Not because we are
immune in some way. Quite the opposite! We do this because we know, each
in our own way, what it is to hurt, what it is to need someone to care.
We also do this because - like a piece of wallart that our Easter Buddy
hostess has on her wall says, "There is always, always, ALWAYS,
something to be thankful for." May we always remember this and chose to
focus on this. ... |
Easter
Buddies 2017 (Tina B, Cindy L, Laurie
M, Cindy W,
Sheri L)
(Picture Taken by Lauren B - Tina B's Daughter)
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Easter Buddies 2017 (Cindy W,
Laurie M, Tina B, Cindy L, Lauren B (Tina B's Daughter), Liberty M
(Lauren B's Friend)
(Picture Taken by Easter Buddy - Sheri L)
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Here are
some more snapshots from the day ...
A little closer up picture
of the stuff - and this is just one of the tables. With making 115
bags - there was a whole lot of stuff this year!
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In order to get this first picture, Lauren and
I had to literally tag team from both sides to 'corner' Sheri, but
we pulled it off.
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Sorry Sheri, but if you make it difficult too take
your picture, this is what can happen. lol
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More fun filling the bags! |
... This year, you might notice we are in a new
location - there is a story here as well. Which is once again a story so
befitting of Easter Buddies and the inspiration that each of my friends
brings to me. This is the home of Sheri L. She is truly one of the most
sweet, gentle, generous, and caring ladies you could ever meet. And yet,
like it or not, she has had to be one of the toughest also! That is why
I say it is so befitting of Easter Buddies. As you know Easter Buddies
was born out of tragedy. It reaches out to those in hard situations -
children in the hospital. Life includes hard! This home is not the same
home that you've seen in prior years for Sheri, not because she had the
pleasure of building a new home, or the joy of up-sizing or down-sizing,
or right-sizing or whatever at her leisure. No, instead, Sheri faced the
horrific sight of the home she had raised her boys in being destroyed by
a catastrophic fire. Taking with it so many items replaceable and not.
This lovely home in these pictures this year is a message that God can
indeed carry us through. As I said earlier - none of us come to Easter
Buddies from a place of immunity. We've been blessed to be a blessing
and there is indeed always, always, ALWAYS something to be thankful for!
Happy Easter!
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