Easter – NealEnJoy

Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 4/21/25

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Neal Saye

I’m Marveling this Monday Morn at last night’s Marvelous Easter Supper.

Chef Robert made a scrumptious dinner of beautiful lamb steaks, chopped asparagus, gnocchi (potato dumplings) and a savory herb gremolata sauce.

I had not heard of gremolata before, but Google came to the rescue. “Gremolata is an herb condiment classically made from parsley, lemon zest and finely chopped garlic.”

Beyond Delicious!

TIB (Truth in Blogging): Shockingly, HR did not make this MARVEL-ous meal from scratch.

Do you know about these meal kits from The Fresh Market? We have tried half a dozen of them so far and loved them all.

We have also gotten to know the delightful butcher Elise at our Savannah Fresh Market. She puts the meal kits together. When Robert showed her the kit he chose for our Easter Supper, Elise took the kit from his hands and replaced it with larger lamb steaks. (Get to know your butcher!)

Sunday Evening Song

“There’s a Dawn in Every Darkness”

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Neal Saye

At our church’s Easter service this morning, we sang one of my very favorite songs/hymns of all time: The Hymn of Promise. Its truth is exactly what I needed to hear, sing, and believe during these trouble times in which we find ourselves.

If you have a moment, I invite you to experience its uplift and encouragement. (The lyrics are below.)

In the bulb, there is a flower
In the seed, an apple tree
In cocoons, a hidden promise
Butterflies will soon be free

In the cold and snow of winter
There’s a spring that waits to be
Unrevealed until its season
Something God alone can see

There’s a song in every silence
Seeking word and melody
There’s a dawn in every darkness
Bringing hope to you and me

From the past will come the future
What it holds, a mystery
Unrevealed until its season
Something God alone can see

In our end is our beginning
In our time, infinity
In our doubt, there is believing
In our life, eternity
In our death, a resurrection
At the last, a victory

Unrevealed until its season
Something God alone can see

I Wish You a Peaceful Easter Evening 2025.

Humor, Seasonal Changes

It’s the time …

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Neal Saye

… for healthy, affordable eggs.

Holiday Joy

Joyful Easter!

Posted on March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 by Neal Saye

What a wonderful Easter service at our Asbury Memorial Church this morning here in Savannah.

AFFIRMATION OF FAITH

One: We believe in God:

All: who is older than eternity,and younger than our next breath; who is beyond describing, yet knows us all by name; who inspires faith,yet cannot be contained by religion.

One: We believe in Jesus Christ, flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone:

All: He came in the body to give worth to every human life. He touched the untouchable, loved the unlovable, forgave the unforgivable, and endured slander, persecution, and death in order that through suffering love God’s kingdom might come on earth. He rose from the grave as living proof that what is laid down in faith will be raised in glory

One: We believe in the Holy Spirit:

All: who leads us into truth and freedom, who gives good gifts to all God’s children, who inspires research, enables prayer, and wills that human economics and politics should prioritize justice, care of the earth, and the healing of nations.

One: We celebrate the potential of the Church:

All: the life in our bodies, the yearning in our souls, the promise of good things in store, and the opportunity to love and serve one another.

Amen.

Water, River, Spirit, Grace,

Sweep over me, Sweep over me!

Recarve the depths your fingers traced

In sculpting me, in sculpting me.

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HR and I hope that you are having a peaceful Easter 2024.

In front of our church’s Living Cross this stunningly beautiful Easter morning.

Five Friday Happy Bringers

Five Friday Happy Bringers 3/29/24. “Baltimore Edition”

Posted on March 29, 2024March 30, 2024 by Neal Saye

My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.

For quite a while, Robert and I have been planning a trip up to Baltimore to visit a handful of his aging aunts and other relatives in the city and surrounding area.

Our early morning flight from Savannah landed in the Baltimore/Washington International Airport about 9 am this past Tuesday. What a shock it was to us when we turned our phones back on to see the horrorific news about the disaster of the Francis Scott Key Bridge about 15 miles away. And as we found out later, six workers were missing and presumed dead.

1. Ironically enough, first on our agenda before we checked into our Airbnb later in the day was to visit the gravesites of Robert’s mother in Maryland National Memorial Park …

And his father and stepmom in Arbutus Cemetery …

2. We LOVED going back to our favorite Baltimore crab cake restaurant, G and M.

3. Reveling in the ravishing Baltimore daffodils.

Here’s a fascinating little independent film I produced, wrote and directed titled “Daffodil Hunching.” (Watch carefully for my guest star.)

(HR didn’t know he was in the film.)

4. Seeing the beauty and truth of this Ukrainian Catholic Church across from Patterson Park in Baltimore.

5. Finding the coolest Free Little Library.

And three books!

I hope you’ve had a Good Good Friday and will enjoy a Great Easter Weekend ahead.

Holiday Joy, Peace

Taize Four: “Living Water”

Posted on March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 by Neal Saye

Tonight was the fourth and final Taize service at our church, Asbury Memorial, in Savannah. Next on the Christian liturgical calendar is this weekend’s Palm Sunday.

(Here’s a link to my first post about Taize, with a bit of explanation about what it’s all about: https://nealenjoy.com/2024/02/28/taize/)

Tonight’s final service was again splendidly simple and peace filled.

The emphasis was upon Living Water.

From the order of service:

“After Pope John Paul Il visited the ecumenical, monastic Taizé community in France in 1986, he said:

One passes through Taizé as one passes close to a spring of water. The traveler stops, quenches his thirst, and continues on his way. The brothers of the community do not want to keep you.

They want, in prayer and silence, to enable you to drink the living water promised by Christ, to know his joy, to discern his presence, to respond to his call, then to set out again to witness to his love and to serve your brothers and sisters in your parishes, your schools, your universities, and in all your places of work.

So come into this place of peace & let its silence heal your spirit;

Come into this place of memory & let its history warm your soul;

Come into this place of prophecy & power & let its vision change your heart.”

CHANT: Let all who are thirsty come. Let all who wish receive the water of life freely. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

May the peace that passeth understanding, the peace of God, which the world can neither give nor take away, be among us, and abide in our hearts. Amen.