“Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail, hoppin’ down the Bunny Trail. Hippety-Hoppity Easter’s on its way!” I pray you all have a wonderful blessed Easter.
Tillatoba Baptist Church is hosting a communitywide egg hunt Saturday, April 8, at 10:30 a.m. at the Hartley farm, 1813 County Road 2, Tillatoba. Lunch and games will be provided. All ages welcomed!
Christian love and sympathy to the Mary Belle Moore family. Mary Belle passed away peacefully Sunday, April 2, in Oxford. A full obituary will be in the paper.
Happy anniversary to Gary and Joy Tippit, who celebrated 51 years, April 1.
Happy birthday to Vickie Parker James, Olivia Jenkins, and Rachel Langham on the 7th; Keith Beck on the 9th; Tara Williams Upchurch and Chase Newman on the 10th; and Bro. Truman Scarborough on the 12th. Watch it, Bro. Truman, you are about to catch up with me! I hope you all have a great day celebrating your birthday.
David and I motored to Holcomb Saturday and met our friends, Roy and Joan McCain from Drew. I had a few things that Roy had “Mad Wood” to make for his group DAWPA. We enjoyed our visit with them and hate it was so short. Maybe next time we can visit longer.
Phil and Ginger Harrison had a great weekend. Saturday was a beautiful day to be out and about. She and Phil went to Fulton to the Redlands Festival where their son, Josh, was playing and singing with the band In Debt. They are a talented group of young folks from a wide area, including Gore Springs, Grenada and Fulton.
Their other son, Jake, wasn’t able to be there because he was working an event in Cleveland. Ginger said that was their first time at the festival and visiting Fulton. It was very nice. She and Phil had lunch at the Peppertown Cafe and it was very good. Maybe I can go one of these days, Ginger, and find the grave of my grandparents, Dave and Willie Thomas Gregory, who are buried in the Fulton Cemetery.
Faye Hartley said she was busy working and going to ballgames and watching their grandson Rowland play ball.
Sunday afternoon, my daughter Donna, Miranda and Summer Procella took me over with them to deliver a picnic table/bench that they had made for friend, Martha Box. I loved all that laughter and memories Martha and I shared. I hope we can do it more often.
Martha had a great week with good visits and grateful music Tuesday at Square Market! Her granddaughter, Marnie Box, got a few more driving lessons from GiGi. She has been learning from the back seat since first grade. She is getting her first car from her daddy in a few days! Martha started teaching her great-granddaughter, Addie, Saturday while they drove about shopping and having a great lunch. Her sister, Joyce, and her niece, Melanie, with her little grand girls ate lunch with them.
On Sunday, Martha heard a wonderful message shared at Willow Springs Assembly of God by visiting pastor David Robertson. She said it was a spirit-filled message about our Lord Jesus teaching, leading and healing just prior to the cross! All in all, Martha had a good week.
Sheryn Goode’s bonus daughter, Linda, and son-in-law David Shelton from Nesbit visited with Sheryn Sunday. They carried flowers out to the cemetery and just enjoyed visiting with each other.
Deborah and Tommy McCool visited her daddy, Ray Bell, and did some shopping for him. After church Sunday morning, they went to visit daughter Kimberly and Jason Beavers. Jason’s mother and sister, Virginia and Sandy Beavers, were there also and they all enjoyed sitting on the porch and visiting. Later, Deborah said she and Tommy went back to her daddy's and Tommy worked on his lawn mower for him.
Darlene Moorman’s great-grandson, 4-year-old Elisa Beck, was with her again last weekend. Darlene said they had a ball playing race cars in her living room floor. That’s something he is into as of now, but that’s what his paw paw is into, too. He has a collection of model cars that will not fit into a closet. I told Darlene they are at the age to have a big imagination and their conversations are serious.
Recipe for this week “Easter Rolls”
You will need crescent rolls, melted butter, large marshmallows, cinnamon and sugar. Bake these with your young children or your grandchildren.
1. Give each child a triangle of crescent rolls. This represents the cloth Jesus was wrapped in.
2. Give each child a marshmallow. This represents Jesus. Dip the marshmallow in melted butter. This represents the oils of embalming.
3. Roll the buttered marshmallow in cinnamon and sugar. This represents spices used to anoint the body.
4. Wrap the coated marshmallow tightly in the crescent roll, sealing it inside. This represents the wrapping of Jesus’ body after death.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. The oven represents the tomb. (Pretend it was three days.) Let the rolls cool slightly. Open the “cloth” from Jesus’ body and find that he isn’t there! Jesus has risen!
Thought for the day by Deborah McCool: As long as we can feel pain, we are alive.
