Will your Easter be different?

[Jesmcd2]

Will your Easter be different this year? With most of us under a Social Distancing of some sort, will that stop you from seeing family and/or friends?

Or are you just going to do what you normally would do? 🐇

J🌠

[falalalala]

We're not going anywhere and I will distance myself from the kitchen as usual.

[mm1527mm in reply to falalalala]

We are not either. We are social distancing ourselves ... not from the kitchen though lol

[Amore55 in reply to falalalala]

I always distance myself from the kitchen!

[mrsmike9 in reply to falalalala]

Kitchen? What's a kitchen? We are lucky because my younger daughter who came home because of the virus is cooking for us!!!

[greaterexp]

I’m grateful I don’t need to clean, but so sad to miss being with family. We are hoping to FaceTime with kids and grandkids.

I hope everyone finds some joy in the day tomorrow!

[RoyceNewton]

no, it will not shange in the least, just another Sunday to me, well maybe a little less Iron Maiden i9n consideration of the neighbourhood

[2littletime]

Mine will be very quiet, just husband & myself.

[jimeka]

We had our usual family quiz. We all video watsap and Harry sets a quiz for us all. We are not allowed out so FaceTime, watsap or Houseparty app are our ways of family time. 🤗 🍫 💐

[Kenu]

No going to be different another holiday without Jody 😣. But I will still look for those eggs 🥚 from last year 😳😜🤣😂😉😊🐾🐾🙏👍 Ken

[Amore55 in reply to Kenu]

Kenu, it is hard to celebrate holidays without loved ones. I will be thinking of you today, warm thoughts and prayers. Find those eggs! Love, Kelly

[Kenu in reply to Amore55]

Thank you 🙏 👍😊😉🤗

[kdali]

Nope. We will wait on the weather to allow us to hide eggs. When gma comes over we will hunt them and eat together. Might fly a kite this year!

[agapepilgrim]

You better believe it’s gonna be different! It only takes talking to my respiratory therapist daughter treating all her Covid patients for 12 hours a day, being the only one in the room when her patient dies, the futility she endures, just because people are not practicing social distancing, not wearing masks, not using the gel - saying “I have rights to do what I want to do” and someone else ends up as her patient, she intubate patient, only one allowed in room when intubating, she wears complete suit that looks like hazmat suit and scared every day she will infect her family because virus in room may attach to her - because asymptotic carrier decided to go to church for Easter rather than worship at home “where 2?or 3 are gathered together there will I be”. And Paul and Silas brought down the power to break the chains while sitting deep in a dungeon! They didn’t need a church building to show their worship and faith in Jesus. And for children—Easter egg hunts can be in a back yard or in a house. Our dinner will be just the two of us but it will be on the good China and our other daughter sent us a big ham to eat (which hubby will enjoy) but other daughter will be in hospital taking care of Covid patients that someone passed the virus to - please don’t carry on as usual- please stay home and create a special day of your own music, your own worship, read the Easter story yourself, do it differently and SAVE a LIFE. May the Resurrection Power give you love and courage to put others first.

[Amore55 in reply to agapepilgrim]

agapepilgrim, God bless your daughter and all the medical personnel who care in these difficult, trying times. Please thank her for me. She is a hero! May she and her family always be protected. I am with you, we can worship in our own homes, me alone, others with their companions. No one has the right to gather, then spread this insidious disease we all fight. Have a nice Easter! Love, Kelly xx

[agapepilgrim in reply to Amore55]

Thank you.

[4fishylady in reply to agapepilgrim]

Agapepilgrim, thank you for that message to us. It's all so very real to you, but a little unreal to us who sit in far off places. (To date, 22 cases in our rural county.) We, two, are doing the social distance thing, and wearing masks when having to go out. Our Easter Sunrise Service was watching it on a facebook broadcast. It was a very good message, from a very small nearby church. Our son sang and played the guitar for the music, for both that service and the 9 am service. We were blessed abundantly! He is risen, indeed! May your Easter be blessed by Him!

[agapepilgrim in reply to 4fishylady]

Fishy lady, it wouldn’t be real to me at all but fir Jennifer talking about hour driving home from work sounding like a sy fy movie! Only 3 in our county but about 2,000 in state and 100 deaths and governor talks on tv every day from 5-6. Hubby goes to town once a week and he says it’s like a ghost town at 7 am for seniors only. I’m staying home cause I have chronic bronchitis and scarred lungs from annual pneumonia already. Daughter said if I get it my lungs will be badly scarred and I will have serious COPD with life time of oxygen tank -if I survive ( now wouldn’t that scare you?). It’s all surreal. So I make my pleas for all our sakes. She said no one really gets the danger of it. Even the nurses don’t keep the masks on the Covid patients, thinking if THeY wear masks bits ok!! No critical thinking skills. I’m rambling again. I do that a lot if I start typing. Loneliness I guess. If I had a few million next year I would arrange a get together for all of us!!

[4fishylady in reply to agapepilgrim]

Dear friend, that's a heavy load you are carrying. You and Jennifer will be in my prayers! We all have so much to worry about, about our own health, and to add your daughter's being right in the trenches with it, is a whole lot to carry! You know what we've been told "take your burdens to the Lord and leave them there." But, I also know how hard it is to leave them there! We mothers can do nothing with all our worrying, but we have a miracle working heavenly Father Who works best, when we just let go, and let God. Right? He is the only One Who knows when and how this nightmare will end, so we just need to hold onto His Hand while He leads us, or carries us, through it. I keep hoping everyday that He will make a grand appearance in the clouds! That would take care of everything, even the awful storms tonight! May He give you sweet peace tonight.

[agapepilgrim in reply to 4fishylady]

Thank you. Yes, I’ve been taking it to the Lord for a long time now. Jennifer almost died when she was 18 and became very ill. She was in hospital undergoing lots of tests, losing weight, down to 85, doctor specialist said some kind of intestinal parasites, point of death, organs shutting down, finally diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. It’s been a rough journey, pilgrimage for this pilgrim, but my vision from God was to cultivate His Love “through it all” as Corrie tenBoon did Hence, my “name” agapepilgrim. My favorite poem, song, is “I know Who holds the future” and Jennifer’s favorite is “It is well with my soul.” What she wrote was given to her she said as she was listening to Amazing Grace on the way to work. Our goal is all about saving humanity. “Others, Lord, yes, others, let this my motto be.” Thank you for your prayers. The storms passing through gave me my recurring migraine tonight, and colder weather flares up arthritis and MS pain, but when I think of Jennifer working fir 12 hours under all that stress with Crohn’s pain and the masks bothering her asthma, well, my problems pale in comparison. And when I remember watching the movie The Passion of Christ, MS is not such an important burden to bear. I have peace and joy.

[rjoneslaw]

my mother and I normally sit in the kitchen but this year my mother has been living with my grandmother since Oct because she had brain surgery to remove a tumor the size of a cantaloupe.

At the time the dr told us if she didn't have the surgery when she did she would've died in 4 months. My sister would talk to her and she wasn't sounding right and when she went to the house she was completely off

my grandmother has her moments but she is slowly improving

[Amore55]

Jes, I will FaceTime with the grand kiddies, most of the 16 living ones, then talk to the two who have passed. I am not crazy, but like to think they can hear me! Easter has different meaning as one ages I have found. No more egg dying, as the kids are far away and do it with their children. But still one of my favorite holidays for many reasons. Hope you are well. Love you! Kelly xx

[Texandyroe]

My Easter will be different, in that I will not be able to see my son, d-I-l, and granddaughter this year, but I will be attending church services on line and singing Hallelujah, He has risen. Easter blessings to all!

[Doubled51]

Well no church because of weather but it will be streamed on Facebook so it’s not like no church at all. We’ve been having drive in services but mucho rain is in the forecast. Other than that when we moved up here in the sticks we don’t see much family anymore.

Donnie