Every Sunday morning my husband has a time with the children called “Pastor’s Pals.” All the children come down to the front, sit on the platform steps, and hear their pastor share some biblical truth or story with them. I have a front row seat because I sit in the choir. I’ve seen some interesting sights from my vantage point!

Easter – what a precious day! We remember the resurrection of our Savior. Because He conquered death, we, too will live after this life is over! “He is not here, for He is risen as He said. Come see the place where the Lord lay.” Matthew 28:6

I fixed a pretty traditional Easter dinner for my family. We had the privilege of having our college student home for the day – she came home for the food! 🙂 Well, there were other reasons – maybe to be in her home church as well as with her parents, but the coconut cake was pretty important to her!

You can’t have Easter without chocolate bunnies…

Here was the traditional Coconut Cake in the making –

three layers of a yellow cake, then lemon filling between the layers.

Putting the waxed paper under the layers keeps the cake plate clean while you ice the cake and put on the coconut.

M&M eggs as decoration on top. I’ve also made this into a basket, pushing cardboard handles covered with ribbon into the top of the cake.

I also served:

Honey Glazed Ham

Sweet Potato Casserole

Apricot-glazed Asparagus

Corn

Orange Pretzel Salad

Deviled Eggs

Sister Shubert Rolls

What was cookin’ in your kitchen on Easter?

With joy because He lives,

When store clerks tell you to have a “Happy Easter” tell them why we can be happy every day!

I love to cook! I’ve learned that using the right tools makes the job much easier! Getting the lumps out of confectionery sugar or flour is essential to smooth icing or cake batter; to do that you need a sifter. When you pour the flour or sugar in and then tap the sides of the sifter or squeeze the handle, the fine, smooth flour pours out and the clumps stay behind. The clumps are then tossed out – that’s the part that would have ruined the food.

The Word of God is the screen on the”sifter” of our thoughts. All day long we think things and hear things, and they get poured into our minds. It’s our responsibility to tap the edge, to sift it through the truth of God’s Word. Whatever doesn’t line up with His Truth is what is left in the bottom of the sifter and needs to be discarded, otherwise it could ruin us!

Think about yesterday – cliche’s you heard people say, advice you were given, what you heard on the radio, television or Internet – was it all absolute Truth? Does it line up with the Word of God? Before you let those things really sink in – tap the edge of the sifter – look into God’s Word and get rid of that which doesn’t fit into the grid of Truth!

With love,