Easter Sunday - 2014

My first Easter -  like nothing else ... first sunrise service - first alleluia sung by a choir - first ALLELUIA sung by my own heart and mouth ---- so long ago now, 64 years, but more meaningful now than ever! To each of you who receive this blog or email - may Jesus bring you deep inner peace, no matter your external circumstances.

This morning my heart and thoughts have gone around the world thinking of those with whom we have "walked" in and through Jesus of Nazareth. So many faces from so many countries - over 50 for sure - each of us have sung Alleluia because there is no inner peace without Alleluia some place in our lives.

Jesus Christ has risen - Alleluia --- may the whole world come to know and accept - then there WILL be peace in every nation and among every nation.  When we lose Alleluia as the center of our life then we must find a substitute center - to quote Helmut Thielicke p 281 "...if he (a person) is no longer subject to God, then he is under the domination of his instincts, his opportunism, his ambition, his will to power. The day may come when he will stick to nothing if it seems opportune to him. For every one of us has some kind of lord, we are all driven by something - if not God, then an idol, if not from above, then from below."

EASTER SUNDAY  - Jesus Christ is risen today ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA

Thank you Jesus that "You Know What You Are Doing!"