Easter Joy
We moved to Manitoba in the summer of 2010 but it took us a long time to settle on a church. Since the fall of 2011, we have been regular attenders at St. Margaret's Anglican in Winnipeg. But occassionally, we attend a little Anglican Church closer to home just outside of Selkirk called St. Clement's. It's a very quaint church situated beautifully near the Red River with a well-kept graveyard (never can think too far ahead....) and a convenient service of 7:30 am which I like to attend when I'm on duty for overseeing the nursery at St. Margaret's. This past weekend, however, I ended up there for the 11:15 am service which was an "Easter Festival of Readings and Music". It was just what I needed to re-focus my attention on the Easter Season.... and the great joy and hope we have because of the resurrection of Jesus.
One of the readings that has stayed with me this week is 1 Peter 1:3-8, 21:
" 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ... 21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God."
May this Easter faith, hope, and joy be yours,
Tracy
One of the readings that has stayed with me this week is 1 Peter 1:3-8, 21:
" 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ... 21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God."
May this Easter faith, hope, and joy be yours,
Tracy
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