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Each Easter Season I look for a renewal. The meaning and completeness of Easter week is a journey unto itself and I urge you to take the trip through. Follow the steps of Jesus as He enters the city and dwells among the people with the disciples. Join Him in the time of review and reflection and the prophesy. You are a person of God and we all come into the world with rejoicing and we celebrate but, as in Christ, we will come to an end in life with sorrow only to rise again.
I want you to know that we can all travel into Glory. And we must have suffering along the way. But before death takes our physical presence away, let us sit together and celebrate God’s blessing by taking bread, sharing, and drinking wine. We all need to dip into the bowl together for we all share what will come. We may not know how or when, but it will come. “Why?” is the question we ask. The answer lies with Christ himself.
Death of one life ceases and the birth of new life arises. Come with me to take a tired and weary life and bury it. Wait and be at peace. Do not weep for the past. Wait and pray. Let one night to pass and then another. Wake in the following morning to a new body and life rejoicing for God is with us through Christ by the Holy Spirit. We are in the palms of His hands.
William M. Howard
April 23, 2011