Happy Easter! Easter and Spring have arrived. As I write these warm thoughts, it is the week before Easter and there still are some mountains of snow surrounding the little home on the prairie. My grandson, Trevor, who lives in Nebraska and who is spending some special vacation days with his grandma in South Dakota, is overjoyed to make an Easter snowman. Is spring really here in South Dakota? The events following Palm Sunday bring many memories of my past trips to the Holy Land. Walking the Via Dolorosa on the way to Calvary is a memory that often comes to mind not only during Holy Week.

It was my special joy to make a pre-Easter pilgrimage and also a trip to the Holy Land at Christmastime. What memories. Climbing the hill of Calvary and worshiping in that Garden Tomb. Two of my friends entered the tomb in that garden with me and sang, "He is risen! He is risen, indeed!" The events that happened on Easter so many years ago, remain vivid in my mind having also walked that road of Emmaus the day before leaving the holy land to return to America. Thoughts from that beautiful hymn come to mind as I walked that road of Emmaus. "Abide with me this eventide. Thy walk with me, has made my heart within me burn as I commune with Thee. Thy earnest words have filled my soul and kept me near Thy side. O Savior, stay this night with me. Behold, tis eventide."

Warm Thoughts: Fair are the meadows, fair are the woodlands. The seasons come and the seasons go and many of the changes they bring, but in the warmth of a mother's heart, it is forever spring. May you have a joy filled Easter season!

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Dr. Luetta G Werner

Published in the Marion Record, March 27th, 1997.

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