RESURRECTION DAY

Daniel and I stayed in Texas for Easter. Our weekend was really great!

Last night was the party with the Somalis and Liberians. Today was a great day as well! This morning, worship was amazing. Our preacher acted out the story of Lazarus. Throughout the story, he talked about different aspects of Lazarus' life and related them with our own lives. Lazarus was dead and then came alive, he was bound and then was loosed, was unafraid of death...he'd already been there, had a story to tell, and was attractive to the masses! We are much the same. As believers, we've been dead spiritually but are now alive in Christ. Even as followers of Christ, we may sometimes feel emotionally dead or mentally dead. BUT...there is good news!!! We can be given new life if we give these things to Jesus. We may be bound to a certain sin or false thinking or depression. BUT...we can be loosed from those things by the power of Christ! HALLELUIAH!

This afternoon my professor and his family invited us over for lunch. They are Arab. And we had an Arab visit. We got there at 1:30 and didn't leave until 6:30. The time flew by and our conversation was so encouraging. We shared stories - their story of how they met and fell in love. Our story. Stories about our parents. We also talked about ministry and theology. About God's heart for the nations. Oh, how beautiful is the body of Christ. I thought tonight, "In our future, we will share many holidays with our spiritual brothers and sisters and not so many with our biological families. Although we will certainly miss holidays with the people with whom we've grown up, I am so thankful that God provides for us a humongous (sp?) family through the blood of Christ! Amen?? AMEN!

Finally this evening, I hid eggs for Daniel and he searched for them in my backyard. And we dyed Easter eggs together.

It was a really nice, relaxing day to celebrate our RISEN SAVIOR!!!

Praise Him with all of your being today! He is ALIVE!!!!