Happy Easter!
Enjoy:
Have a wonderful Easter!
This Easter, please remember and pray for the courageous and beleaguered Christians all over the world who are under attack.
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Enjoy:
Have a wonderful Easter!
This Easter, please remember and pray for the courageous and beleaguered Christians all over the world who are under attack.
Amen.
Brought that up at church this morning and we did.
Joyous Easter to all & a blessed Passover to our Jewish Friends.
may God hold those suffering & threatened in the middle east close to Him today & forever !
You are a good woman Neo!
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied ; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 53:6-12 NIV Translation
Happy Easter to all of you.
He is risen!
Thanks, Neo! and a blessed Pesach to you!
Happy Easter! Went to church this morning, and was delighted the minister preached a good Christian sermon about the Resurrection (last year he went wobbly and Unitarian, alas).
I watched The Ten Commandments this evening (the last two hours) on ABC. Seems it’s still a ratings juggernaut. I wish they’d bring back Ben-Hur and The Robe, too. Those old Hollywood Bible movies actually had a powerful effect on me as a child: bringing the Sunday school stories to vivid life.
. . . To those who have seen
The Child, however dimly, however incredulously,
The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all.
For the innocent children who whispered so excitedly
Outside the locked door where they knew the presents to be
Grew up when it opened. Now, recollecting that moment
We can repress the joy, but the guilt remains conscious;
Remembering the stable where for once in our lives
Everything became a You and nothing was an It.
And craving the sensation but ignoring the cause,
We look round for something, no matter what, to inhibit
Our self-reflection, and the obvious thing for that purpose
Would be some great suffering. So, once we have met the Son,
We are tempted ever after to pray to the Father;
“Lead us into temptation and evil for our sake.”
They will come, all right, don’t worry; probably in a form
That we do not expect, and certainly with a force
More dreadful than we can imagine. In the meantime
There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair,
Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem
From insignificance. The happy morning is over,
The night of agony still to come; the time is noon:
When the Spirit must practice his scales of rejoicing
Without even a hostile audience, and the Soul endure
A silence that is neither for nor against her faith
That God’s Will will be done, That, in spite of her prayers,
God will cheat no one, not even the world of its triumph.
— W. H. Auden