Happy Easter!!!

It has been a very long and hard winter in Virginia, well really the whole country. Easter is normally cold and rainy here, not at all like the Easters I remember from my childhood. But, this week has been incredibly warm and sunny. This morning as I sit on my porch the tulips have finally joined the daffodils as if on Easter cue. The grass has that fresh green Easter look and the birds and air are teeming with life. I love it!!! I do NOT want to go to church tomorrow........isn't that sad? I find church depressing, not "life giving".............I would rather sit up on top of Afton Mountain at sunrise with my family and sing and read scripture. We did that last year and Emily says that is her best Easter ever.................We will go to church. I find that I still have a very strong faith.........I just don't practice it very well. I live so much in the flesh..........fear, anxiety, almost in a triage sort of way...........reacting to everything as it comes. I have started listening to Beth Moore online at Life Today every morning and then to Paige Benton Brown's four talks at: http://www.2pc.org/resources/audio/?page=4
She is the best and most amazing speaker................believe me!!
What they have to say is truth, but in the midst of my everyday life and work, I have to really change my thinking and attitude. We will all be together tomorrow.............Monday I take Tucker back to VMI after having him here for just 2 nights.........and then we have the rest of the week off for Spring Break. I signed Jake up for civility school on Tuesday...........manners camp....he is in dire need. We will have several college visits for Miss Em who is ready to fly the nest............as a Junior I have to say, I am not even close to being ready for that girl to leave me....who is really having to grow up..............my kids or me????