Palm Sunday!

But Palm Sunday tells us that … it is the cross that is the true tree of life.
~ Pope Benedict XVI

Palm Sunday is like a glimpse of Easter. It's a little bit joyful after being somber during Lent.
~ Laura Gale

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you; righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
~ Zechariah 9:9

You are saying all those people who show up on Palm Sunday, Easter and Christmas fly away in between those holy days?
~ Buck Malachi

Ride on, ride on in majesty!
In lowly pomp ride on to die;
O Christ, thy triumphs now begin
O’er captive death and conquered sin
~ Henry Hart Milman

It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.
~ William Barclay

Alleluia, how the people cheer
And palm leaves rustle as the king draws near.
~ John Beavis

Lord, we lift up your name
With hearts full of praise;
Be exalted, O Lord my God!
Hosanna in the highest!
~ Carl Tuttle

Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
~ Blaise Pascal

Clap your hands all you people.
Shout unto God with a voice of praise!
They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel!
~ John 12:13

Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts,
Heaven and earth are full of your glory!
~ Isaiah 6:3

Self-awareness through applicable quotes!

"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."
-- Dame Edna Everage

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
-- H. L. Mencken

"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."
-- Fran Lebowitz

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."
-- Orson Welles

How I spent my Saturday afternoon . . .

 As you have seen from previous postings regarding my quilting addiction, my patterns tend to be rather eye boggling. My husband likes calm and sedate, a pattern that 'sits' still when you look at it. I'm restraining all my inner abstract and trying to make a new quilt for our bedroom that will make my husband and his eyes happy.

Since we are repainting the bedroom blue, eventually, I decided to make a basic patchwork quilt in all the blues I can find in my stash. So far, the pattern is relatively calm . . . but it isn't finished yet and no promises.

Timeless reflections . . .

I guess overcast skies and staying indoors has activated my homemaking instincts  because I've been doing some cleaning and organizing. Lots of stuff is boxed for chairites and thrift stores. Lots of memories are leaving by way of those boxes. That's the hard part of cleaning . . . giving away various items and books that instantly bring back a memory. Okay, a few things got slipped back on the shelves for the next clean up (I promise!), but most of it will find a new home.

In my papers, I found a little paragraph written by my son when he was about eight or ten years old. Nothing changes as it seemed rather appropriate in view of the world all these years later. Here it is:

"Religion does not seem to play an important part in many people's lives today. Sad as it is, I think that people lead sinful lives to comfort themselves because of their own inadequacy. What it comes down to is there are two types of people; those who realize they are inadequate and turn to God, and those who turn their inadequacies to sin. "