Happy Easter!

After so many Easters in Texas, this year was very different. We were thankful to have been able to make it back to Kansas City last night so that we could be with our local church family today.

It was a good day, though. Pancakes with neighbors, and having Gram and Annette join us for church really made the day special. Then lunch with the rest of our motley crew and home for calm.

Easter held more meaning in this year. Many places where hope had long seemed buried, it was renewed. But as is the norm in life, that hope is not without some new recognition of the costs. Good and bad, happy and sad; life is made up of all the things in between.

Hold the tension. Find the peace. Live in love.

I love you, friends!