Saturday, March 22, 2008

Happy Easter

Thank you for the many congratulatory comments regarding the completion of my thesis. This Tuesday, I have a phone interview with my instructor and then I'll be done with the class. In other news, it has been an exciting and busy weekend! I will write more about that in a future post...

Since tomorrow is Easter Sunday, I wanted to share a holiday message in the form of a Michael Card song. Below is a YouTube video of Love Crucified Arose. There's a small introduction before the song. However, the song lyrics are relevant to the hope Christians celebrate at Easter. Praise to the "Risen One in splendor," because "He has won the victory"!


Love Crucified Arose
Michael Card

Long ago He blessed the earth
Born older than the years
And in the stall a cross He saw
Through the first of many tears
A life of homeless wandering
Cast out in sorrow's way
The Shepherd seeking for the lost
His life, the price He paid

Love crucified, arose
The Risen One in splendor
Jehovah soul Defender
Has won the victory
Love crucified, arose
And the grave became a place of hope
For the heart that sin and sorrow broke
Is beating once again

Throughout Your life You felt the weight
Of what You'd come to give
To drink for us that crimson cup
So we might really live
At last the time to love and die
The dark appointed day
That one forsaken moment
When Your Father turned His face away

Love crucified, arose
The One who lived and died for me
Was Satan's nail-pierced casualty
Now He's breathing once again
Love crucified, arose
And the grave became a place of hope
For the heart that sin and sorrow broke
Is beating once again