One of the best unexpected blessings through this ordeal has been the outpouring of love and encouragement! Dave gets texts and cards every day from appreciative congregation members. We've been so delighted to find gifts on our porch regularly! Everyone is seeking connection and just has way more time on their hands. I think a new love and care for one another will be one of the things we gain when this is over!
On the day we filmed the Palm Sunday service, we found this beautiful palm branch arrangement on our porch. It smelled soooo good! It hung over our mantle till Easter. From my co-teacher Doreen!
Another co-teacher, Lisa, porch dropped this adorable Easter basket! We had a brief time to visit/yell to each other also, her in her car in my driveway and me on my porch. Even a long distance conversation and air hug with this dear friend was a gift!
A church friend, and family Ella babysits for, is the most amazing cookie decorator! She and her kids dyed and shared these awesome Easter egg cookies with us on Sunday, since real eggs are scarce right now!
Another lovely couple from our church was looking to support a local bakery, so they blessed us by bringing by an amazing apple pie! It was delicious and it made our Easter dinner that much more special.
Some ranchers in our church have a huge piece of property up in the hills where they graze their cattle. Since all parks, trails, and beaches are closed right now, and they know our family loves to hike, they gave us a set of maps and all the gate codes to spend a day hiking in their spectacular scenery! We hiked 5 miles and still saw only a fraction of their land.
It was a fabulous reminder that though the pause button has been pressed on our life, the wildflowers still bloom, the brook still babbles, the birds still sing, and the deer still skitter away. Creation continues to glorify the Lord!
The change of scenery for a whole Saturday did wonders for our spirits! And we got some great exercise too as we climbed up and down all the hills!
Not pictured is the beef our dairy farming friends have filled up our freezer with, the free movie codes our cousin Derek, who works at Universal, shares with us, the strawberries a friend dropped on our porch, and the Bible verse art work a sweet friend mailed us. We ache to see our friends and church family again face-to-face, but are being upheld by these generous and heartfelt gestures of kindness in the meantime!
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