Easter
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Nuts
I'll try to make it up to the woman. I will. I'll choose her check-out line, every time, no matter the wait. I'll be pleasant. I'll show her Jesus. But right now, I have to side with the brother.
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A Cake For Spring
I made this cake a few days ago, just for the sake of emptying my cupboard of one cake mix and three packages of instant pistachio pudding mix. But as these things have a habit of doing, my cake took on a life of its own ...
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How to Make a Heart-Shaped Egg
Don’t you think all food should be heart-shaped? Yeah, me too. I’m slowly working my way down the list. To my usuals (heart-shaped meatloaf, mashed potatoes, muffins, cupcakes, donuts and cookies), I’m adding one more: heart-shaped eggs. I think they’re my favorite. You don’t need much. Here’s the very short list: Heart-shaped Eggs eggs, hard-boiled and still very warm cardboard (milk cartons work great) rubber bands, 2 per egg knitting needle or chopstick, 1 per egg Multi-tasker that I am, I tried making three of these at once, but it didn’t turn out very well, because the pressure of the knitting needle split two of the eggs. It may have…
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Stained Glass Jigglers
Okay … so I was just waiting for an excuse to make these. And I’m going to tell you right up front: they’re more beautiful than delicious. But people mostly ignore the odd blandness of Jello in favor of the fun. So you’ll get away with these just fine. Easter provided me with the excuse I needed. We spent the afternoon with some of our favorite people — the Griffins (our hosts), the Welches, the Johnsons, and the Ovesons. Needing to bring a “finger food,” I opted for these Jigglers and a bowl full of cream puffs. Because, you know … who ever turned away a bowl full of cream…
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Isaiah 53
If Jesus had not left the beauty of heaven, where He was adored and worshiped as God, and entered humanity through a dark, obscure cave; if He had not endured betrayal by the ones He loved most, and stood silent while mere humans plucked out His beard and spat on His face, and struck, and whipped, and accused, and mocked Him; if He had not lifted and carried the rough instrument of His death, and laid His hands against the cross beam, and accepted nails into His flesh; if He had not hung there with His blood dripping down into the sand below, and His prayers of forgiveness ascending to…
