IT'S ALMOST HERE!

What is almost here, you ask?  Easter week!  Easter is my favorite celebration season EVER!  You regular blog readers might recall that in the past I have either written each day prior to Easter Sunday OR given scriptures to read that week before Easter Sunday.

If you want to look back at those or some of those, you may see posts as follows:

March 22, 2013 each day through April 1, 2013

April 12, 2014 "Rejoice"

March 25, 2016 "Good Friday"

This year I might take a somewhat different approach.  I'm still SO excited about celebrating my risen Lord!  I am still considering how my thoughts are coming together and I hope to write much next week--if not every day, at least many days.

Also this Palm Sunday is the beginning of our church's Spring Revival.  This causes my mind and heart to return to my own testimony of salvation.  You may read it and see pictures on my post from July 5, 2012 titled "Revival".  My testimony has not changed for my salvation experience but my testimony daily has gotten better and better.  Why, you ask?  The Lord has proved himself over and over and over again in my life, tears come to my eyes much more often than before, and my heart rejoices in my Lord so much more than before.  Occasionally, very occasionally, very very occasionally, at my church, I sing a solo.  Believe me, it's the Lord's idea, not mine.  Standing in front of a congregation and singing alone is not my choice.  The song I always sing a Gaither tune and is titled, "The Longer I Serve Him, the Sweeter He Grows."  Man, that's my testimony for sure.  The words go like this:

Since I started for the kingdom,
Since my life He controls.
Since I gave my heart to Jesus, 
the longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows.

The longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows.  
The more that I love Him, more joy He bestows.
Each day is like heaven, my heart overflows.
The longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows.

(I love this verse.)
Every need He is supplying.  
Plenteous grace He bestows.
Every day my way gets brighter.
The longer I serve Him, the sweeter He grows.

I get so wrapped up in how this song speaks to me and for me that I get a blessing just humming it!

So as you go through next week....consider the sacrifice of our Lord and consider the blessings....just consider....