Counting down to Easter, I never thought that that would be something that I\u2019d do one day. Well, several days. Until this year. I\u2019ve read different books about family life these last couple of months, and several mentioned celebrating \u2013 and with that counting down to \u2013 Easter. When you think about it, we actually celebrate the most important moment in our Christian faith with this event. And if we count down to His birthday, why not to this one?<\/p>\n
Last Sunday, we read about how Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey. The leaders of the church<\/em> \u2013 no Sietse, temple \u2013 weren\u2019t happy with that. But Jesus didn\u2019t come to be the king of a city or a country, no, He came to be the King of our hearts. At least our oldest got that part. We made a donkey out of our foot prints (well, the boys) and we wrote \u2018Hosanna\u2019 on top of it. This piece of art is proudly presented at the first day of our countdown.<\/p>\n We had to wait until Wednesday until we could do our next event. I called it \u2018feet washing Wednesday\u2019, because it sounds fun. A few days before I prayed unexpectantly (because yes, those prayers exist too) that we\u2019d have nice and warm weather in our lovely Denmark this time of year. But while praying I was already thinking: \u201cwarm enough so we can be running outside bare feet and play with water? Probably not\u2026\u201d And it turned out to be 18\u00b0C! So instead of having to get dirty feet, so we could wash them, in our fairly small bathroom, we had the entire garden. Lots of space to get messy in the mud, wash each other\u2019s feet and\u2026 run through the mud again \u2013 wash feet \u2013 mud \u2013 wash\u2026 Until our water was just as muddy as everything else. At least it still smelled nice.<\/p>\n Yesterday, on Maundy Thursday, we made breadsticks and celebrated communion. I don\u2019t know what our oldest got out of it, because a little later we heard a voice shouting from the sandbox: \u201ccan I have some more wine?\u201d Today, we\u2019re having visitors, and we\u2019ll be taking time to look back at Jesus\u2019 dying on the cross, to have a resurrection brunch on Saturday.<\/p>\n This week is filled with fun activities for the kids, but it helps me too to stand still with what Jesus actually went through in the end. More than ever I\u2019m looking forward to the resurrection of Jesus, our Saviour. Death couldn\u2019t hold Him down, He is risen, He\u2019s alive!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Counting down to Easter, I never thought that that would be something that I\u2019d do one day. Well, several days. Until this year. I\u2019ve read different books about family life these last couple of months, and several mentioned celebrating \u2013 and with that counting down to \u2013 Easter. When you think about it, we actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[190,194,195,197,192,196,193,191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reinencaressa.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}