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April 15, 2004
my trip part 3-Celebrating Easter
It's always great when my trips home work out so that I can go to church with my family. We started going to Church of the Rock when I was in the sixth grade. Its funny to go home now and be greeted by people who think I'm a visitor, in my head I'm thinking, "Hey wait a second, this is MY church".
Pastor Roland's Easter message was called "Another Look". He talked about how Easter is about God challenging what we expect to see. There are sermon notes at http://www.cotr-vt.com. His sermons always draw me in. He is gifted in being able to really bring words to life through scripture and stories. He almost always points out something that I had never thought about in quite that way.
After church, my mom's side of the family came over for dinner. The Janes side of the family is much smaller than the Gagne side. Grandma, Uncle Merritt, Aunt Jeannie, my parents and I had a nice dinner and then watched my grandparents 45th anniversary party video. We had watched it Sat. night, so I spent most of the time watching Grandmas reactions rather than watching the movie. That was neat. The afternoon ended as many of our family gatherings do after a big meal...people were watching Fox News, talking politics and my uncle Merritt, mom and I were falling asleep.
Posted by stacey at April 15, 2004 02:04 PM