The weather was great and we made it to Buena Vista to see our friends. I enjoyed a cup of chai and two hours of conversation with Linda. I bonded with my in-laws. We came home and Adam came for a visit. We had a wonderful time with all. And now for today…
Happy Easter!
This morning our family, including my friend Heather, visited a church that our new friends Steve and Missy (and their team) planted in Boulder. They are meeting in a high school and they had a pretty good crowd for their first Sunday. What a great day to open the doors of a church for the first time! The music was good. The message was encouraging. The people were friendly. Their was an excited buzz in the air. God was present. I was moved. It will be nice to visit the High Way Community from time to time to encourage our friends and join them in praising God.
We spent the afternoon with the Captivating families minus my dear friends Paula and Jerry. Paula has a killer toothache and isn’t functioning very well, so she was home in bed. 😦 Please pray for her. We all met at Wendy’s house and had a great time eating, laughing, talking, having an Easter egg hunt for the kids and reading an Easter story together. 8 adults and 16 children. It was fantastic. After we prayed together, Wendy said, “He is risen!” and everyone responded with “He is risen indeed”. Everyone except me and Benny. Was this some secret ritual we didn’t know about? We had never heard that before. I guess it’s some sort of liturgical reading and response – something we never did in the C of C. Nobody really knew the exact origin of the phrase. Anyway, it was cool and we joked that they needed to teach us the secret handshake as well. 🙂 It was an afternoon with our extended family and it was refreshing and filling.
This picture was taken last summer at Wendy’s murder mystery birthday party, “Killing for the Crown”. L-R is Me, Wendy, Paula, Abi, and Kristi.
In the Broadway hit, Les Miserables, one of the lead characters sings, “To love another person is to see the face of God”. How true. God has moved, shaped, loved, stretched, comforted, and grown me through the relationships I have with these 4 fabulous women. I am who I am today because of their influence and the road we’ve walked together the past two years. My sisters and friends. I have experienced God in new ways through these women and their families. He is risen alright! He is alive and at work all around me and in me! He is risen indeed!
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Hee hee, you’ve learned the Christian secret handshake! That’s hilarious. The call-response of “Christ is risen,” “He is risen indeed” is a very VERY old thing. Any self-respecting liturgical Christian knows that from the womb, but we evangelicals are often the last to hear about it.
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I thought, who’s been holding out on me? lol I did not grow up in a liturgical church, so I’m a newbie to the whole call-response thing. The few times we’ve done that at The Journey, I thought it was cool, but a little…well…mechanical. I guess if I think about it, my favorite time was when we read Psalm 136 and I got to speak the “His love endures forever” parts.
I continue to learn and love mixing the old and the new and bring glory to God with it all. 🙂
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? Not sure. I thought it started on the very first Easter.
When did you get crowned? I think I need one too. LOL
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Too funny. The first time I heard that wonderful Easter tradition I felt lost, too. Now I love it. I do think our church backgrounds through the baby out with the bath water on so many fronts, this resurrection ritual is just another example.
Glad you guys had fun yesterday. Sure missed being there, but such is life.
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