"Christ is risen from the dead

Trampling over death by death

Come awake, come awake

Come and rise up from the grave

 Christ is risen from the dead

We are one with Him again

Come awake, come awake

Come and rise up from the grave."

--Matt Maher, 'Christ is Risen' lyrics

Happy Easter, everyone. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed. May you have a blessed day remembering all He did, and all His is.

"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." --Carl Bard

 "The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances." --Robert Flatt

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to QOTD--or should I say, I'm finally back! I was astonished to see that my blog still has had so many hits even when I wasn't adding to it. I'm hoping to begin this again, hence the two quotes above. The first really applies to this circumstance, and the second was more in honor of the fact that it's Easter Sunday tomorrow, not that this blog is so important. So here's to new beginnings, new energy--and hopefully font that is not quite as small as it used to be. (I reread through my old stuff and could barely make out the words. Here's to new formatting!) So here we are, beginning again.

 

"What would we do without beautiful men?" --Me

"I have no idea...sink into a deep dark miserable depression?? lol...actually not cuz we'd still have Jesus, but still..." --Michelle

I love the conversations I have with my best friends.

"Wait, what are we supposed to be doing? I was busy pretending to rip his head off." -Scott 

This is what makes night classes endurable.

"Bite the cigar, balls to the walls." --Aubry

"Babies are such a nice way to start people." --Don Herold

"Laurenne. It's pronounced 'Lauren'. Sorry." --Laurenne

"What are you apologizing for?" --Varineau

"My parents." --Laurenne

"Oh, you still having trouble talking to the ladies? You know, we have a woman at our church that's an amazing healer. She mostly does crutch and wheelchair cases, but I bet she'd be willing to take a crack at whatever third world demon is running around inside you." --Mrs. Cooper,  

The Big Bang Theory

"OMG I have to show you the 2 liter of sparkling water that's sitting in my toilet tank! The people before us left it there." --Me

"...I'll bet it's alcohol!" --Kenz

"...is that where YOU store YOUR alcohol?!" --Me

"Oh my gosh I'm tweeting this right now!" --Kenz

"How are you going to narrow that down to 140 characters?!" --Me

I love hanging out with my bestie. It mostly never makes any sense, but it's hysterical.

"Oh, may our longing to kneel always be greater than our longing for healing." --Jennifer Rothschild

"Are you planning on kidnapping a woman?" --Howard

"Sarcasm?" --Sheldon

"Yes, but mixed with genuine concern." --Howard, The Big Bang Theory

We had our piano pulled out from the wall last week because my dad was painting. While it was out, I had my little brother (Jacob) and the 10-year-old girl I nanny (Claire) vacuum it out one day to clean up the dust. I was working on something else, but heard him say, "So, one of Leah's friends is playing for the wedding and she was over here the other day and played some of the stuff and she said it wasn't even good or ready but it was like... so good. She was like, using both hands way high and way low and all over and all these different notes and it was amazing." --Leah Stegman

Who needs a resume when a 10-year-old says this about you? Not me.

"What kind of person deletes their BIBLE?!" --Chrisara, to Matthew

"You can tell where our priorities are. We have 4 cookie sheets, 17 wooden spoons, a stone casserole dish, a bundt pan...and neither of us have beds." --Me and Christina

"For they have come to throw us out of Your land, which You gave us as an inheritance. O our God, won't you stop them? We are powerless against this mighty army that is about to attack us. We do not know what to do, but we are looking to You for help." --2 Chronicles 20:11-12

"With God, all statistics go out the window." --Kenzie

"It may seem like the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget about the guy who forgot about you." --'The Notebook'

"He loved, yet lingered. We are so quick to think that delayed answer to prayer means that the prayer is not going to be answered. Dr. Stuart Holden has said truly: "Many a time we pray and are prone to interpret God's silence as a denial of our petitions; whereas, in truth, He only defers their fulfillment until such time as we ourselves are ready to cooperate to the full in His purposes." Prayer registered in heaven is prayer dealt with, although the vision still tarries.

God's delay in answering the prayer of our longing heart is the most loving thing God can do. He may be waiting for us to come closer to Him, prostrate ourselves at His feet and abide there in trustful submission, that His granting of the longed-for answer may mean infinitely greater blessing than if we received it anywhere else than in the dust at His feet."

--Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Springs in the Valley

"I hear You say 'My love is over,
it's underneath, it's inside, it's in between
the times you doubt Me, when you can't feel
the times that you've questioned 'Is this for real?'
the times you've broken, the times that you mend
the times you hate Me and the times that you bend
these times you're healing
and when your heart breaks
the times that you feel like you've fallen from grace
the times you're hurting
the times that you heal
the times you go hungry and are tempted to steal
in times of confusion and chaos and pain
  I'm there in your sorrow under the weight of your shame
  I'm there through your heartache
  I'm there in the storm
My love I will keep you by My power alone
  I don't care where you've fallen, where you have been
I'll never forsake you
My love never ends, it never ends.' " 

--Tenth Avenue North, 'Times'

"I need You to carry me when I am weak." --Jenny and Tyler, 'Faint Not'