Thank you, Joyce for keeping the Hodgepodge questions coming.
1. March is rolling on out of here. Sum up your March in ten words or less.
Budapest, Bratislava, Czech-Republic, Austria, Cambridge, Seventy-Five, Nine…Travel and Birthday Joys!
2. Are you afraid of heights? No
When was the last time you found yourself dealing with a height, and did it make you nervous?
Besides flying at whatever thousands of feet, the highest was climbing with our own two feet to the Panorama Look-Out at St. Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest last month.
It did not make me nervous until we started down on these stairs.
3. What’s a word you struggle to spell on a regular basis, and sometimes need to double check before writing it down?
Occassion , Ocasion, Ocassion, Occasion whew…finally I got it right.
Use the word in a sentence that tells us something about your April calendar.
We are looking forward to several occasions to celebrate in April starting with Resurrection Sunday and then two more family birthdays.
4. Love ’em or hate ’em, with Easter comes the sweet treat known as Peeps. So… do you love ’em or hate ’em?
I neither love them or hate them, I ignore them.
Speaking of peeps, what’s your favorite way to have chicken?
Chicken pot pie is a favorite.
5. This week’s Hodgepodge lands on the first day of April, which happens to be National Poetry Month. Do you like poetry? Share a favorite line or two from one of your favorite poems. What makes this one a favorite?
The form of poetry I love are old hymns by people like Fanny Crosby, John Newton, Wesley, and others. I’ll share a stanza and refrain from Fanny Crosby’s, Like a River Glorious;
Like a river glorious, is God’s perfect peace,
Over all victorious, in its bright increase
Perfect, yet it floweth, fuller every day,
Perfect, yet it groweth, deeper all the way.
Refrain:
Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blest
Finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest
This has been a favorite for years. It was a hymn we sang often at Bethany Baptist church in L.A. and in other churches we’ve been a part of. It has a great four part harmony and the alto part comes back to my memory easily when singing it with the congregation. The longer I’ve been following Jesus as my Lord and Savior, God’s peace gets fuller and deeper.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
It’s Easter week and this is another hymn that speaks of Jesus Christ and what the cross, Good Friday and Easter are about. Happy Easter, Hodgepodgers!
Lamb of God, We Fall Before Thee
Lamb of God, we fall before Thee,
Humbly trusting in Thy cross.
That alone be all our glory;
All things else are only dross.
Thee we own a perfect Savior,
Only source of all that’s good.
Every grace and every favor
Comes to us through Jesus’ blood.
Jesus gives us true repentance
By His Spirit sent from Heav’n;
Whispers this transporting sentence,
Son, thy sins are all forgiv’n.
Faith He grants us to believe it,
Grateful hearts His love to prize;
Want we wisdom? He must give it,
Hearing ears and seeing eyes.
Jesus gives us pure affections,
Wills to do what He requires,
Makes us follow His directions,
And what He commands, inspires.
All our prayers and all our praises,
Rightly offered in His name—
He that dictates them is Jesus;
He that answers is the same.
When we live on Jesu’s merit,
Then we worship God aright;
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
Then we savingly unite.
Hear the whole conclusion of it:
Great or good, whate’er we call,
God, or King, or Priest, or Prophet,
Jesus Christ is all in all.
Words: Joseph Hart, 1759
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
Happy month of April, have a great day!
…make your Awesome April lovely too!
You are right about the hymns. The verses are heart and faith filled poems. I like so many of Fanny Crosby written hymns. Your random thought poem is really wonderful. Thanks for sharing that. Your March was full of so many good things including amazing travel. The stair pic is good. That’s a lot of stairs to climb down!!
I love hymns, but especially those associated with Easter. The Old Rugged Cross is one of my favorites, but also At Calvary. Our church always sings at least one hymn, then some more contemporary too. Wishing you all the blessings of this joyous season!
Oh wow! That is a lot of travelling! How wonderful! The views over Budapest are beautiful! I looked at the way you tried spelling Occasion and thought they all could be right. lol I always think there are 2 s’s
Happy April,
We have an April birthday too, our son Sam.
I like Fanny Crosby too. I have a Fanny Crosby hymn that was currently sung at a funeral hanging on my bulletin board.
Happy April, Ellen. I hope you are enjoying spring, The daffodils are beautiful.
I enjoyed your Hodgepodge answers. Now I am hungry for chicken potpie. 🙂 But my favorite part of your hodgepodge was your own insert. This is such a special week as we reflect on what Jesus did for us and the privileges it affords us…having our sins forgiven and God seeing us clothed in the righteousness of Christ. Oh my!
Enjoyed your answers. When we were in Switzerland we climbed to the top of this building and I was so scared.
I enjoyed your answers today! I picked a hymn for my poem, too!
Lisa, I looked for your Hodgepodge but couldn’t find it.
Happy Easter!
Ohhhh chicken pot pie. That sounds good. We don’t have it b/c it’s not something my husband eats. My DIL makes a good one though.
Oh my…look at those stairs!! No doubt they were worth it for that amazing view! There are so many wonderful hymns for Easter (not that they are just for Easter but you know what I mean….) Thanks for sharing a hymn!!
Always enjoy reading your answers. That sure is high. What a great view!! Great hymn.
What a wonderful March you had. It was worth climbing to see that view. I understand the difficulty with that word. Your chicken pot pie sounds yummy. That is a lovely poem, also your random thought is beautiful. Have a wonderful Easter.
Great answers – have a blessed week!
Oh yes, those open winding stairs would make me nervous as well!
I also love some of those old hymns, and Like A River Glorious is a great one! I wasn’t familiar with the Joseph Hart poem but I really like it.
Hope you’re having a blessed Holy Week!
Yikes! Those stairs would make me weak in the knees! I, too, love the old hymns and their rich and beautiful words. “Alleluia, What a Savior” has been especially dear to me this Easter season.