The Morning After-100 Words

The morning after.

We know the significance of the morning after.

There’s the morning after our wedding night.

The morning after a first date.

The morning after a hard day’s work in the yard.

The morning after being sick all night with food poisoning.

Yes, all significant. All memorable.

But, the “feeling” of those days will fade all too quickly. They’ll be out of sight and out of our mind.

However, the morning after Easter Sunday is just as memorable as the day before.

You see. Jesus is still alive today. The resurrection hasn’t changed.

The tomb is still empty!

Easter--100 Words

Easter.

Easter has really changed for me over the years.

As a preschooler, Easter was about baskets, bunnies, and a few handmade Easter eggs dipped in dye—the kind of dye that lasts far longer on your hands than Easter M & M’s.

As a boy, Easter meant wearing the new suit sewed by my mother. The one I remember most? A solid white suit, with matching white shoes and socks.

Easter took on a new meaning for me at the age of 15 when I asked Jesus to be my Savior.

Since then, Easter is about resurrection. Hope. Life.

Darkness--100 Words

Darkness.

As a child, I was afraid of the dark.

Truth be told, it wasn’t the dark that frightened me.

It was the things that went bump in the dark.

The monster under the bed. The scratching on the window.

Darkness can be frightening.

I’m certain that on a hillside called Calvary, there was much fear. Shaking. Uncertainty.

Around 3:00 PM, the sky went dark. The earth shook. Jesus died.

That was Friday!

Three days later, a borrowed grave was empty again!

The angel would say it best, “He’s not here!”

What do I have to fear?

Not the dark!

Lego My King!

A Swedish church unveiled a life-size statue of Jesus Christ during their Easter morning mass.

The nearly 30,000 Lego bricks used to make the 5.8 foot statue were donated by parishioners, Per Wilder, the pastor of the Oensta Gryta Church in Vaesteras.

“It is a fantastic installation and it will be there as long as we think it is in a good spot,” Wilder said. “All those I spoke with were full of praise, saying how fantastic the model looks and how much good work we put into this.”

Wilder said work on the statue was started a year and a half ago.

Wonder if they have spent an equal amount of time telling people exactly who Jesus is and what He did for us on the cross and through the empty tomb.

He's My King!