Easter Words of Encouragement

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Wishing you and yours a wonderful Easter -- celebrating the resurrection of Jesus!

How amazing is it to think that God loved us while we were imperfect. We don't need to be "good" or "good enough" to be worthy of God's love or to earn salvation. Salvation is a free gift from God and all we need to do is accept His free gift! What a blessing. 

Please don't hesitate to ask questions if you would like to learn more about Jesus, the Bible, or the Christian faith! I might not be able to answer all your questions, but I love the Lord...

Check out: my favourite Easter story from 8 years ago: 

Joy in Jesus' Return -- From a Kid's Point of View 

~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~

Happy Easter! Jesus is Risen!!!

Easter 2010

Elijah (age 10) reminded me that we needed to bury our toy Jesus in the backyard.  I didn't realize that this was a tradition that he wanted to keep up with, but I'm all for making memories and continuing traditions and so Jesus was buried in the back yard.  But -- He didn't stay buried!

He was buried, 

and He was raised from the dead on the third day, 

just as the Scriptures said.

1 Corinthians 15:4

Check out this funny story about the first time we buried Jesus in our yard from Easter 2010 .

~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~

Have a Blessed Easter!

 Wishing you all a Happy Easter weekend...

Jesus ministering to the multitudes

I hope you have fun with family and friends however you celebrate.

Easter to me is a time of thankfulness for Jesus' death and resurrection.  I know that my sins are forgiven because of His act of love.   

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 

"For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: 

that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day 

according to the Scriptures"

~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~

Happy Canada Day and 4th of July...

Happy Canada day to my fellow Canadians. I know I'm late to join the fun, but better late than never?

(This is Elijah as we waited for the Olympic Torch earlier this year)


Due to the kids and I having dreadful colds we celebrated at home small scale. My mother in law, visiting from Ontario, made cheesecake and we all watched "Perfect Strangers" and laughed and laughed. In the evening I watched the fireworks from our living room window as is tradition.


Happy 4th of July to my American friends.

I hope everyone had fun celebrating the country they love!

~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~

Joy in Jesus' Return -- from a Kid's Point of View

This Good Friday I gave Desiree and Elijah a toy Jesus and a children's book about some of the miracles of Jesus. After we acted out some of the miracles, we acted out his death. Then we wrapped Jesus up in cloth (toilet paper), buried him in a "tomb" in our front yard and covered it with a rock. The plan was to check the tomb on Sunday and (spoiler) Jesus wouldn't be there!

But, a few hours later at bedtime here is the conversation Elijah (newly 4), Desiree (6) and I had.

Elijah: "Can we go get Jesus now?"

Me: "Remember Jesus was in the tomb for three days?"

Elijah: "But, I want to take Jesus to bed with me..."

Desiree: "You know that Jesus is always with us, right?"

Elijah: "But I want the toy Jesus."

Me: "You don't want to wait three days?"

Elijah: "It's time -- I counted -- 1, 2, 3!"

Me: "Oh... but three days is longer than just counting to three."

Elijah: "1, 2, 3 ... 4, 5... Let's go get Jesus!"

What could I do? I couldn't withhold Jesus from my son for the sake of an object lesson. So we went back outside in the dark and dug in the tomb. Thankfully I'd had the foresight to remove Jesus as soon as he was buried just in case something like this happened. There in the dirt was the "cloth", but no Jesus. Elijah said "Maybe we need to dig deeper?" All of a sudden Jesus appeared out of no where (as if from my pocket).

I don't know if Elijah completely understood the object lesson, but he sure was glad to get his Jesus toy back. And isn't joy in Jesus' return what Easter is all about?


~❀~ Chelsey ~❀~