Happy Easter

I hope you have had a wonderful Easter Day.  I went to church this morning with my Dad and Daughter.  Had a wonderful service.  When I got home I went on Facebook and found a post from my niece.  This post, made my day.
     My niece remembered that Easter Sunday is the day my Mom gave her heart to the Lord Jesus Christ.   My mom made sure we all remembered this day, every year she would tell us the story.  Now that she is With Christ in heaven, this story is so Special.
58 years ago today, Easter Sunday  1953, My Mom went to Easter Sunday Services with her Mom and Dad.  Her Dad had recently received Jesus Christ into his heart and wanted nothing more then to have his Daughter receive Him also.  My Mom felt the Holy Spirit in that service and went forward to receive Jesus Christ into her heart when the minister gave the Alter Call.   That night she went back to Evening Services and received the Holy Spirit, with evidence of speaking in tongues.   She lived the next  57 years telling everyone she met that Jesus Christ had saved her, and He could save you also.  She spread the message of Christ to all.  The Mailman, the people at the grocery store, the post office, her hairdresser, the people at Sears, people she came across in her everyday life.  The mechanics that worked on Mom and Dads cars for the last few years came to her funeral, because she was not just a customer to them, she was a friend.  She shared her faith to them each time she was there for service on her car.  Mom lived her life for Jesus like no one I have ever met.   She "preached" at her family, manily me, right up to the day she died.  She loved people, and wanted everyone to know what had happened to her on Easter Day 1953.  You could not know my Mom and not know Who she served.  She would shout it from the housetops. 
   You see Easter Sunday is special for more then one reason to me and my family,  God Rose from the Dead, and my Mom started her long life in Christ.   Thank you Lord, for Dying for me and taking my sins to the Cross, And thank you for saving my Mom and fillling her on the same day 58 years ago.  When my Mom was saved, it paved the way for me to know Him.  I celebrate this day for these reasons.  
Thank you to my niece, Andrea, for reminding me how special this day really is.