A brand new month! Welcome to April and all that this fourth month of the year shall bring us. The old saying is that April showers bring May flowers. Well, most of my May flowers are already blooming and we are seven and a half inches of rain fall above the yearly average to date. And --- it appears we are going to have another week of on and off rain which will bring the totals even higher.

Easter Sunday and Holy week have come and gone. We had ninety one for the late service yesterday and thirty two for the sunrise service. Those are acceptable numbers. Of course some of those were the "Creasters" as we call them; the people that only come on Christmas and Easter. And of course there were relatives of members that came to church too. Next Sunday we will be back to the normal attendance. But, the services were really good and the church looked beautiful with all of the lilies in the chancel area forming a large cross. The bell choir played a nice song and the Chancel Choir sang the Alleluia Chorus. I think I have told you that we only have a twelve person choir but they sang that Alleluia Chorus as beautiful as any choir I have heard.

Julie and Jim and the pups came over on Saturday afternoon and stayed through lunch yesterday. Julie had to go to Indianapolis first to do a blood draw. She came on down after she finished with that. Jim and the pups came a little earlier. We didn't have a fancy traditional lunch but what we did have has become tradition with us. Easter Sunday we do brats and potatoes and another vegetable or two. We started doing that about six years ago and it satisfies the need without Ms. Kate having to go to great lengths to fix some meal that will leave us having leftovers for two weeks. Yesterday Ms. Kate also fixed Bock wurst sausage with sauerkraut. Bock wurst is known as an Easter sausage for some reason and it is usually fixed with kraut.

I have office hours this morning at the church and then Ms. Kate and I are heading to Louisville, KY. We need to drop off a couple of things that Julies left here yesterday and needs for her upcoming business trip to Florida his weekend. And, I'm taking Ms. Kate to her favorite restaurant, PF Chang's, for a late lunch / early dinner. She deserves a reward for all of the extra work she had to do during the Lenten season and Easter. I figure since we had to go to New Albany, we might as well drive the extra mile to go go to he other side of Louisville. Hopefully we will beat the rain and cruddy weather that is coming our way yet tonight.

That is about it for today. Time to go to work and get this day going, although --- boy could I crawl back in the sack for another hour or so. Have a blessed day. Don't forget the message of Easter still needs to be spread today and tomorrow and every day. Easter isn't a one shot and done. God's message is always out there to be delivered and God relies on you and me to continually be disciples of His Word. Peace be with you.