Jesus IS The Reason ~* Easter Blog Hop*~

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God bless you for joining us on this wonderful hop venture! 
Once again, my thanks go to Catherine (Paper Addict) for  inviting me to th newest  blog hop
for the Easter 'Reason'...and this time we are celebrating the coming of Our Lord Resurrection.

This is indeed a blessed time of year, as we remember Christ sacrifice on the cross at Calvary,  and celebrate his triumphant victory over death!  We're so glad you've stopped by!  Our purpose for the next 3 days is to draw the attention back to Jesus Christ, just as we did with our Christmas version of "Jesus Is The Reason" hop.  In North America especially, Easter has become about mythical bunnies, candy and hunting for colored eggs.

While they amuse us, these things distract us from the real cause for celebration: 

the most amazing event in history - the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

When Christ was scourged, beaten, tormented, spit upon, ridiculed, mocked, nailed to the cross and forced to bear a crown of thorns (Mark 10:34; Luke 23), it was the greatest act of love (John 3:16) the world has ever known. He didn't deserve any of it - He came into this world without sin. But for our sake, because He loves us, He took on our sins and became sin  (2Corinthians 5:21; 1Peter 2:22, 24).  He gave Himself as the final, substitutive sacrifice, thereby paying our sin debt in full and proclaiming, "It is finished." (John 19:30)  Three days later, after being buried in a tomb, He rose from the dead and walked this earth again (Luke 24; Acts 10:40) before ascending to Heaven (1Thessalonians 1:10) to sit at the Father's right hand (Hebrews 12:2).  If you can just begin to picture all of this in your mind, how can you refuse the gift of salvation?  I pray you will accept it, if you haven't already!

In light of the true meaning of Easter, we friends of faith have gathered together

to celebrate and share the Good News. 

We invite you to join in...

If you arrived here via Carolyn's wonderful blog http://utsukushiikami.blogspot.com/
then you are on the right track, or, if you are just aeeived here, then you'll want to go back to the talented Heather's blog to start at the very beginning of  this celebratory hop. :o)
Heather http://joemamainks.blogspot.com/

Kelly http://sandcastlestamper.blogspot.com/

Maria http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/

Sammi http://stuffbysammi.blogspot.com/

Lorie http://thethinkinspot.blogspot.com/

Stacy http://impressionsofaribbonaddict.blogspot.com/

Kadie http://mymindseyecreations.blogspot.com/

Carolyn http://utsukushiikami.blogspot.com/

Paola http://paola-sama.blogspot.com/      <---------you are here

Linda http://stamperstouch.blogspot.com/

Susan http://pinkflannelpajamas.blogspot.com/

Karen http://krbskorner.blogspot.com/

Catherine  http://paperaddictcatherine.blogspot.com

While we cannot even begin to reciprocate the Lord's gift to us, there is "blog candy" on some of the hop stops as a token of appreciation for your comments and encouragement. 

We also invite you to celebrate the real "Reason for the Season" by posting your own creation, celebrating Christ's Resurrection.  There is a place to link on Catherine's blog
http://paperaddictcatherine.blogspot.com
and a prize is up for grabs for one randomly selected card/project. 

Enjoy the hop and many blessings to all of you who took the time to visit and comment!

I am offering a lil token of my appreciation for one of you that stopped by and  left a comment on my blog (hopefully you already are or soon will be, one of my wonderful  followers too! *Good Luck* *wink*)

Here below is what you will receive:
5 handcrafted all occasions cards by me.

Have an awesome time hopping and viewing all the  awesome cards and/or projects  the wonderful partecipating girls created for your visual   appreciation :o) God Bless!

***Hugs***

            ~~~Paola~~






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