Sunday, April 16, 2006

With a mighty triumph o'er his foes

He is Risen!

He is Risen, indeed!

It's been a good--great--Easter Sunday, starting with the weather (warm, sunny, balmy, green). I just... it's my favorite.

Easter Sunday at church was fun and fantastic... Ryan, Allison, and I spent second service (since we'd all gone to the first) standing in the foyer, talking about the old hymns that we used to sang, and we even did our own little rendition of "Up from the grave he arose (he arose)..." and "Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus, deeper than the mighty rolling sea (the rolling sea)..." Such fun. I enjoy being around people who appreciate old hymns, and who can poke fun at them with just the right combination of reverence and playfulness and mockery.

(That's an important combination to have in any mockery of the past--it's not about making fun; it's about knowing your subject matter well enough to be allowed to make fun of it.)

Anyways. Tonight, we had a big orphan potluck--about 20 of us piled into Faith's apartment, Nate made a ham, and the rest of us brought potluck-y dishes, and we all sat around on the floor and ate lots and lots of food. Good times.

The mentality of getting a new Easter dress still holds true, even when you're a transplanted New Yorker in your 20's. No, there were no frilly dresses, flower-covered hats, or white gloves, but a significantly higher percentage of the girls at church were wearing skirts this morning than usual. Something about Easter Sunday...

I booked my tickets home for Laura and Ed's wedding! I'll get into Calgary at 11:10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 2 (which is only 2 weeks away--I hadn't realized it was that soon!), and I leave at 1:50 p.m. on Sunday the 7th, which means that I get to go to first service at Foothills before I have to go to the airport!

Laura gets dibs on me from Tuesday through Friday, but once I know my schedule with her, I can start planning the rest of the week. I know that I've already got a birthday dinner with Kat and Laurel, a birthday dinner for my mom, and some individual hang-out time with Kat and Kim, but other than that... if you want to do something, email me now, because I have a feeling I'm going to book a lot of the week before I leave (as opposed to Christmas, where I had no solid plans, and everything was very fluid).

It's going to be a fun five days... :o)


posted by Alida at 9:33 PM
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3 Comments:
Blogger Jen said...

I want to hang out with you! :)

Somehow I have a feeling I don't count.

*cries*

9:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think we sang both those songs (I know we sang Wonderful Grace of Jesus because it was my request), in four-part harmony, around the piano with Cody playing, on Easter Sunday evening. It was very fun. And Kim got here!

Mom

5:10 PM  
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