easter

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On Good Friday we talked about what Easter meant to us. I recalled a service that the youth put on while I was in Cabot…3 disciples sitting around the Passover table after the crucifixion discussing what had happened and projecting what might happen soon. It ended with a shadow of Jesus on the cross up on a sheet at the front of the church and our youth director singing the song “Mary, did you know”. Something about that really hit home and made me realize that Jesus died for me…yes, he died for the world but specifically he died for me.
Reinette talked about realizing how much suffering was really involved. She is a midwife and has medical training and it had been explained to her as such an agonizing death. That your bodily fluids don’t separate unless the death is extremely traumatic to the body (when he was stabbed in the side). And the knowledge that crucifixion is asphyxiation—a crshing of the lungs slowly…and he endured that for us.
James said that we have to try to remember these things even though it is hard…we must try to act better and love one another. That this is the Easter message that we have salvation only through grace and the act that Jesus gave his life—his sinless life—for us.
He is risen!! And that is the best news we can ever receive.

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