Happy Easter!

Every Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, I always think about a line from a Caedmon's Call song:

Its been a long Saturday between Your death and the rising day when no one wrote a word and wondered is this the end. But You were down there in the well, saving those that fell, bringing them to the mountain again.

And then I've also been thinking about the old hymn "Christ the Lord is Risen Today":

Love's redeeming work is done...fought the fight, the battle won...death in vain forbids Him rise...Christ hath opened paradise.

Thank you very, very much, Jesus, for submitting to the Father's perfect will, becoming a human, humbling yourself to the point of death on a cross, taking all of my sin and my shame, defeating Satan, sin, and death, rising on the the third day and opening the eyes of my heart to see and believe and actually take part in that death and resurrection.

Happy Easter!