Happy Resurrection Day Everyone

Thank you and [GLOW=crimson]Happy Resurrection Day [/GLOW] to you too and everyone else.

Praise God, He is risen and we are risen with Him! So lets all rise to the occasion. Thanks, JohnR7

AMEN!!
Our salvation has been sealed with by His resurrectoin!!
Praise Jesus!!

From Macrina Wiederkehr, in Seasons of Your Heart:

The race to the tomb surprises me more than any other walk in life. The surprise centers around an ancient belief of mine that needs to be rearranged. The race to the tomb, for me, has always meant death. Yet, in my own acting out of this race, I find it difficult to separate death from life. It seems that when you welcome death as one of the necessary breaths to be drawn, it changes before your very eyes into life.

I say this not only of that sacred moment when we step into eternal life, but also of my daily sacred moments that are filled with this same truth.

It is the way of all the earth! Each breath of life is given to us as a gift from another's death breath. At every moment something or someone is sacrificing life to give life. Our race to the tomb, then, becomes a symbol of an emptiness that must be embraced if we are ever to understand life. Arriving at the tomb, the surprise that awaits us is that emptiness and death have been changed into life...

The race to the tomb means losing life. It means finding life. It means wheat falling into the ground and dying, only to rise again. It means life out of death, joy born out of pain. It means racing to the tomb, discovering the surprise of all surprises: life!

Suddenly, all my hidden life proclaims a feast and Easter arrives. Easter comes after the sleep and death of winter and after the struggle of Lent. It comes, as it did for Peter and John, after my race to the tomb. It is one more sign of the way death and life stand side by side and seem to slide over into each other, becoming one just at the moment when I reach the tomb and peer in to see if Jesus is present or absent. As is often the case, sometimes God's absence feels like presence; and sometimes the Divine Presence feels like absence.

We will be racing to the tomb as long as we live. We will be peering into the tomb of our hearts to see if Jesus is really there. At moments like this it would be grace if we could be given the gift of simplicity and authentic grief. Perhaps then, in our moment of uncertainty, we, like Mary, would remember to check with the gardener (John 20:14-16), and the mystery of death and life would be solved.

Our willingness to remove all stones from the doorways of our tombs is important if we wish to find the hidden life within us. If we are willing to become actively involved in this stone-rolling process, our inadequate and unwhole lives become filled with new life, and celebration becomes absolutely essential.

When celebration is the only thing that makes sense, we have begun to understand the sacredness of life and death.

Peace, and Happy Easter, everyone!

~~Cheryl

What a great Day! Happy Resurresction!

Wouldn't it be great if God chose Resurrection Day as the time to release Resurrection Power!

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