Christ the Lord is Risen Today!But the fact is that Christ has been raised from the dead. He has become the first of a great harvest of those who will be raised to life again. 1 Corinthians 15:20Christ the Lord is risen today, Alleluia! Sons of men and angels say, Alleluia! Raise your joys and triumphs high, Alleluia! Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply, Alleluia!Love's redeeming work is done, Alleluia! Fought the fight, the battle won, Alleluia! Death in vain forbids Him rise, Alleluia! Christ hath opened paradise, Alleluia!Soar we now where Christ has led, Alleluia! Following our exalted Head, Alleluia! Made like Him, like Him we rise, Alleluia! Ours the cross, the grave, the skies, Alleluia!Christ the Lord is Risen Today

Charles Wesley (1707-1788) and othersChrist has won the final victoryThe grave has been "boasting" of its power since Eden. But now it has finally met its match. It wraps Jesus up at the Cross and "forbids him to rise," but our Champion, Jesus Christ, fought and won. Where is your sting now, O Death? Christ has won the final victory.We know that whatever boasting we do is not in ourselves, but in the power of Christ. He has won the victory, and now we're just soaring where Christ has led. We bask in the benefits


Quotes of the Day!
(Who really said it first?)Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. (Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum.) ~Alanus de Insulis, Parabolae, c.1280, later used by Shakespeare and others as "All that glisters is not gold." - now commonly misphrased as "glitters".But when he shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. ~Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of ChristIt is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. ~PlautusOkay, Houston, we've had a problem here. ~John L. Swigert, Jr., Apollo 13 command module pilot, 13 April 1970Two souls with but a single thought,Two hearts that beat as one.~Friedrich Halm (Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen
Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. ~Lord Mansfield
The trivia and quotes are much shorter today due to the longer motivation – I try to skip the longer ones, but today’s story from Chicken Soup for the Soul was a great uplifting story. Today is “Take a Walk in the Park Day”, “Doctor’s Day”, and “I Am in Control Day”. So to get all of this out of the way, I guess you could take control, call your Doctor and ask him to take a walk in the park with you – after which a little red wagon will probably pull up to your house or work to take to you that “happy place”. Hope you had a great weekend. Renslar "Renny" Keagle, President