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Easter thoughts\u2026<\/h3>\n

Sometimes life is just too hard. \u00a0Our work, our relationships, our hopes fail us. \u00a0We disappoint ourselves every single day. \u00a0It seems at times as though we just can\u2019t move forward. \u00a0Can\u2019t seem to be able to stop and just breathe. \u00a0We worry and worry and worry until the worry is all that we see. The worry strips away everything else. \u00a0It\u2019s not that we forget about God, forget about His amazing power to move us day by day, or stop believing that God loves us. \u00a0It\u2019s that our daily life, our daily work, our daily worry holds us back. \u00a0We forget that<\/p>\n

\"redeemed<\/img><\/div><\/div>He wants YOU to be filled with His light, His love, His power. \u00a0And the best part? \u00a0You don\u2019t have to have a certain job, or know the right answers to life\u2019s questions, or do everything the right way to be filled with God\u2019s light. \u00a0You just have to be you. \u00a0Broken, tired, sin-filled you. \u00a0When we come to the foot of the cross, we cannot be anything but humbled. \u00a0Humbled and awe-struck that someone we\u2019ve never met, the Prince of all created things, left Heaven to die for us. \u00a0Whether you believe or not, whether you love Him or not, Jesus came to die for you. \u00a0His brokenness is the only thing holding our brokenness together.<\/p>\n

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We sing Hallelujah because He died on the cross for us. \u00a0We sing Hallelujah because He rose for us. \u00a0We sing Hallelujah because, one day, oh God please one day soon, He is coming back for us. And on that glorious day,<\/p>\n

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So, yes, our souls are weary. \u00a0\u00a0And, yes, we are broken. \u00a0But if we fill our broken hearts with His Love, if we let go of everything holding us back and hold on to Jesus with everything we have, He will hold us. \u00a0He will guide us. \u00a0He will lead us until everything we say, everything we do, and everything we think is for Him. \u00a0And He will hold our hand all the way to Heaven.<\/p>\n

And because of this, we are:<\/p>\n

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A few thoughts on standing at the foot of the cross…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacasadesweets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}