I am so excited about the Bible Videos that the church has made and started releasing. There is a beautiful video for each of the remaining days of Easter week that would be wonderful to watch and ponder as a family. Here's the link.
Tonight Jesus ate the passover meal with his apostles. He also instituted the first sacrament and taught the apostles many beautiful truths. He also washed their feet, always the perfect example of service.
Then He went to Gethsemane where He faced alone the embodiment of all of our sins and weaknesses and pains.
"Nothing in the entire plan of salvation compares in any way in importance with the most transcendent of all events, the atoning sacrifice of our Lord, It is the most important single thing that has ever occurred in the entire history of created things; it is the rock foundation upon which the gospel and all other things rest. "
Bruce R. McConkie
It seems so...not enough....to just say how grateful I am for the atonement of Jesus Christ. I can't even comprehend all that He suffered for me, but at the times in my life when I have felt the deepest pain or sorrow, I have felt the reality that He has already felt all of it. And He has been with me and delivered me from every trial of my life thus far, and I know He will be with me through whatever is to come in my life as long as I turn to Him.
We made these today to show that we want to give Jesus our hearts and always remember Him and what He did for us.
Tonight we are going to celebrate passover with our extended family. We eat all of the traditional foods and discuss how the law of Moses was fulfilled through Jesus Christ. It is a really neat thing to do.
Disclaimer: I had plans of making all my art projects in advance so I could post pictures and more details, but I think I temporarily forgot about my most favorite job of being mommy to 3 young children and how it takes up a lot more time than I ever anticipate. So...here is a brief rundown of what we do and some ideas I wanted to try. I'm sure you all are more creative than me, and I would love to hear of any ideas that you think might work better!
Tomorrow is the day Jesus was crucified. We celebrate that greatest act of love of all time by doing random acts of kindness for other people.
For our art project tomorrow, I was going to have the kids make an earth and put a sad face on it because the earth was so sad when Jesus died that there were earthquakes and storms all over the earth.
Saturday we celebrate with the theme "We Are Free!" We know from the Doctrine and Covenants that Jesus ministered in the spirit world during this time. We usually like to go to the temple on this day and discuss how we can help people in the spirit world to be free by participating in temple work. I was going to have the kids make a butterfly as our art project on this day.
Sunday we celebrate the we can all be resurrected because Jesus broke the bands of death!
I was going to make a ressurection puppet for each of the kids. (Print out or draw a picture of each child, one on plain white paper as the spirit and one in color for the body. Then put them on popscicle sticks and use them to show how our spirit and our body are separated by death and reunited by resurrection.)
On Monday we celebrate Easter in America. We have a mexican night! Everyone tells their favorite story from 3 Nephi and we watch the last part of The Testaments when Jesus comes.
For the art project on this day I was going to have the kids draw a picture of little children around Jesus and then have them make a 'ring of fire' with pipe cleaners to illustrate the story from 3 Nephi.
I hope everyone has a glorious week and feels the great love and power that come from the greatest miracle that is Easter!
Tonight Jesus ate the passover meal with his apostles. He also instituted the first sacrament and taught the apostles many beautiful truths. He also washed their feet, always the perfect example of service.
Then He went to Gethsemane where He faced alone the embodiment of all of our sins and weaknesses and pains.
"Nothing in the entire plan of salvation compares in any way in importance with the most transcendent of all events, the atoning sacrifice of our Lord, It is the most important single thing that has ever occurred in the entire history of created things; it is the rock foundation upon which the gospel and all other things rest. "
Bruce R. McConkie
It seems so...not enough....to just say how grateful I am for the atonement of Jesus Christ. I can't even comprehend all that He suffered for me, but at the times in my life when I have felt the deepest pain or sorrow, I have felt the reality that He has already felt all of it. And He has been with me and delivered me from every trial of my life thus far, and I know He will be with me through whatever is to come in my life as long as I turn to Him.
We made these today to show that we want to give Jesus our hearts and always remember Him and what He did for us.
Tonight we are going to celebrate passover with our extended family. We eat all of the traditional foods and discuss how the law of Moses was fulfilled through Jesus Christ. It is a really neat thing to do.
Disclaimer: I had plans of making all my art projects in advance so I could post pictures and more details, but I think I temporarily forgot about my most favorite job of being mommy to 3 young children and how it takes up a lot more time than I ever anticipate. So...here is a brief rundown of what we do and some ideas I wanted to try. I'm sure you all are more creative than me, and I would love to hear of any ideas that you think might work better!
Tomorrow is the day Jesus was crucified. We celebrate that greatest act of love of all time by doing random acts of kindness for other people.
For our art project tomorrow, I was going to have the kids make an earth and put a sad face on it because the earth was so sad when Jesus died that there were earthquakes and storms all over the earth.
Saturday we celebrate with the theme "We Are Free!" We know from the Doctrine and Covenants that Jesus ministered in the spirit world during this time. We usually like to go to the temple on this day and discuss how we can help people in the spirit world to be free by participating in temple work. I was going to have the kids make a butterfly as our art project on this day.
Sunday we celebrate the we can all be resurrected because Jesus broke the bands of death!
I was going to make a ressurection puppet for each of the kids. (Print out or draw a picture of each child, one on plain white paper as the spirit and one in color for the body. Then put them on popscicle sticks and use them to show how our spirit and our body are separated by death and reunited by resurrection.)
On Monday we celebrate Easter in America. We have a mexican night! Everyone tells their favorite story from 3 Nephi and we watch the last part of The Testaments when Jesus comes.
For the art project on this day I was going to have the kids draw a picture of little children around Jesus and then have them make a 'ring of fire' with pipe cleaners to illustrate the story from 3 Nephi.
I hope everyone has a glorious week and feels the great love and power that come from the greatest miracle that is Easter!
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