April 8, 2007 - Easter

Easter: April 8, 2007

Christ is risen! Hallelujah. Rejoice. Tom and I joined with the Christians at the Kent Island Methodist Church this morning for a wonderful celebration of Easter. The service was packed with a congregation of all ages and lots of teenagers for their contemporary worship. There were lots of praise songs with a praise band and we read Luke 24:1-12. One of the cool illustrations was the showing of a video clip from ET the movie. In the clip, ET is zipped up in a plastic bag in the scientific lab and assumed dead. Elliot, his human friend is crying over his loss when he sees ET’s heart light up. Elliot then runs to tell his brother in secret that ET is alive. His joy and hushed excitement was like Mary and the other women’s joy when they discovered the empty tomb and ran to tell the disciples that Jesus was alive. The challenge of the service was to Give up Death and Take On Life in response to God’s incredible love for us. Thank you, God.

After the service Tom and I stepped out into the hall where they were serving coffee, home baked cinnamon cake and small handmade molded chocolate pieces. And following all the years of traditionally having chocolate Easter bunnies, I got a bunny! Its funny how that made today seem more connected to my real life. It was a wonderful morning, and we stopped on the way home for me to take a picture of the crabbing boats.

Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here,

He is Risen

Luke 24: 6-7