Easter's Catholic Books & Gifts

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We are Sandy Easter-Graham, and Denise Easter-Kramer and we own Easter's Catholic Books and Gifts. It is a small, family-owned, retail business located in Northern California, the Sacramento area. We opened our brick and mortar store in 1998, after having spent 5 years selling books out of our cars. Many years of work in the secular world left us empty and unfulfilled. In 1990 through the prayers of our parents, and sister, Kathy, we both found our way home to the faith of our youth and developed a great desire to spread the truth of the Catholic faith. It was the peace, and joy that was found there that set our hearts on fire to offer ourselves as laborers for the harvest. Our dreams were realized by sharing what we'd found in the works of the great writers of the past, the Fathers and Doctors of Christianity, the Saints, and also the many contemporary authors who had been schooled in the same. More importantly, it allows us to share the love of Christ with anyone who experiences that same emptiness after setting their sights on the world's pleasures and .finding that those can't satisfy. This store, more than a retail business is about the journey of life, the journey of the soul. It didn't occur to us the depth of service to our community, the many and diverse ways we'd be called to be his hands and feet. I offer you a reflection - one week's activity that we presented on our Facebook page a few years ago. As we begin a new week this is what's on our minds, this past week at Easter's we have -- ...given countless instructions on the saints, their names and history; ...connected two children, one a newborn, who desperately need a loving family, with a family who hope to adopt; ...comforted a newly baptized Catholic trying to comprehend "trust in God" as she wept over her lost job and faced the fear of losing 16 years tenure, including health care and retirement; ...attempted to console two separate individuals whose long-time marriages are falling apart, both of these have multiple children ...one split maybe because life had become monotonous; ...the other, sadly, because of an addiction to pornography; ...delivered a rosary book to a dear 90 year-old man who got lost on his way to our store; ...encouraged and calmed the fears of a returning Catholic as she recounted the life of her late son and introduced her to something in the Catechism she'd never heard - indeed suicide is "gravely contrary" to love but we "should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives."; ...provided a baptismal garment for the funeral of a month old baby, a twin girl, whose mother had no means. This gown had been purchased by a woman who was not blessed to have children and wanted to provide for exactly this type of situation; ...rejoiced with a grandmother as she shared the picture of her precious new granddaughter, her only grandchild, made even more precious because this little one's big brother passed away just one year ago; ...were blessed by the visit of hundreds to our store and tried to greet each one with a smile; ...lost countless sales to Amazon and apologized to potential customers scores of times for not having exactly what is available on the web, explaining to them why it's important to support local business to enliven the local economy, boost local employment, and reinforce the values that Catholics hold dear; ...answered the