Christ is Risen! Alleluia!

Happy Easter everyone. I has such a good Easter weekend. It was the right mix of all the things I wanted it to be. I think that the full realisation of what Easter means has not yet permeated my fallible human mind. The Easter message is the lynch pin of my faith. That empty tomb to the left is such an important symbol along with the empty cross. Christ is Risen, He is alive, I follow a living God.
I love Easter. I think I love it more than Christmas. I had such a good time worshipping God, hearing teaching, sharing with James and seeing friends.
I went to Maundy Thursday evening service and I am so glad I did. I felt a tangible sense of the Holy Spirit. The sermon was good, it used The Book of God which is the bible as a novel. It was amazing to hear the story of Jesus washing his disciples feet as a story. My imagination ran wild and it felt so real. Sharing communion on the night that remembers the last supper is such a poignant event. I loved it.
Friday morning saw James and I bums on pews at 9.15 am. Loads of families and a sermon about brokenness, which included the vicar covered in egg! There were lots of people to talk to after and I started to get some of that belonging feeling back.
We decided to go to our normal evening service on Sunday. Again an excellent celebration of Easter , with communion and a strong sermon. The chocolate eggs were gratefully received afterwards!
One of the things I enjoyed most was bundling into our local pub with 22 other Christians to do the most difficult pub quiz in the world. We split into three teams and all did fairly badly, the team with Peter G did best but that's because he's the only one old enough to remember pre decimalisation! It was awesome to see so many young believers together being church and celebrating that Our God Reigns! Amen! H xx
p.s. There's more about the empty tomb and other symbols in a really good book called Signs of the Times