He is Risen!

Easter has come and gone but its never really far away.  Each Sunday God has us recall the great gift that Christ gave to us on Good Friday.  I was talking to someone who just lost her father to cancer.  They discovered it very late and the doctor said he would have about a month to live.  He lived 31 days and died on Holy Saturday.  The hurt that we experience when someone we love dies is very painful.  Its real, and it cuts us to the core.  But understanding the amazing event on Easter Sunday makes the pain much less, because we know that death did not win  Christ won!  And Christ promises us that he is with us as he was with his disciples.  They could touch his hands and side they saw him eat with them.  The God Man has taken away forever the sting of death for all who believe in him.  And we too one day will experience the Easter to end all Easters when all are raised and those in Christ will enter paradise forever.