Celebrating the Resurrection! Happy Weekend!

[chri'stina 190]

Very nice poems/songs people added

Although it's a day to think of Jesus' cricifixion, it can only lead to thoughts of the redeption we have because of it and the day of His resurrection.

John 16:20-22, 33

(Jesus speaking)

20 "I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

22 So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy."

then one of my favorite verses in the same chapter

33 "I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

[Welshcookie 17]

Happy Easter to you all.......

[MichelleandCraig 1]

Wonderful, beautiful thread. Thanks for starting this and reminding me, Christina. Happy Easter to all!!! M.

[Dixie_Peach 1]

THE STORY OF EDITH BURNS...

Happy Easter!

Edith Burns was a wonderful Christian who lived in San Antonio, Texas.

She was the patient of a doctor by the name of Will Phillips. Dr.

Phillips was a gentle doctor who saw patients as people. His favorite

patient was Edith Burns.

One morning he went to his office with a h! eavy heart and it was because

of Edith Burns. When he walked into that waiting room, there sat Edith

with her big black Bible in her lap earnestly talking to a young mother

sitting beside her.

Edith Burns had a habit of introducing herself in this way: "Hello, my

name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" Then she would explain

the meaning of Easter, and many times people would be saved.

Dr. Phillips walked into that office and there he saw the head nurse,

Beverly. Beverly had first met Edith when she was taking her blood

pressure. Edith began by saying,"My name is Edith Burns. Do you believe

in Easter?"

Beverly said, "Why yes I do."

Edith said, "Well, what do you believe about Easter?"

Beverly said, "Well, it's all about egg hunts, going to church, and

dressing up." Edith kept pressing her about the real meaning of Easter,

and finally led her to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Dr.! Phillips said, "Beverly, don't call Edith into the office quite

yet. I believe there is another delivery taking place in the waiting

room.

After being called back in the doctor's office, Edith sat down and when

she took a look at the doctor she said, "Dr. Will, why are you so sad?

Are you reading your Bible? Are you praying?"

Dr. Phillips said gently, "Edith, I'm the doctor and you're the

patient." With a heavy heart he said, "Your lab report came back and it

says you have cancer, and Edith, you're not going to live very long."

Edith said, "Why Will Phillips, shame on you. Why are you so sad? Do

you think God makes mistakes? You have just told me I'm going to see my

precious Lord Jesus, my husband, and my friends. You have just told me

that I am going to celebrate Easter forever, and here you are having

difficulty giving me my ticket!"

Dr. Phillips thought to himself, "What a magnificent woman this Edith

Burns is!"

Edith continued coming to Dr. Phillips. Christmas came and the office

was closed through January 3rd. On the day the office opened, Edith did

not show up. Later that afternoon, Edith called Dr. Phillips and said

she would have to be moving her story to the hospital and said, "Will,

I'm very near home, so would you make sure that they put women in here

next to me in my room who need to know about Easter."

Well, they did just that and women began to come in and share that room

with Edith. Many women were saved. Everybody on that floor from staff

to patients were so excited about Edith, that they started calling her

Edith Easter; that is everyone except Phyllis Cross, the head nurse.

Phyllis made it plain that she wanted nothing to do with Edith because

she was a "religious nut". She had been a nurse in an army hospital. She

had seen it all and heard it all. She was the original G.I. Jane. She

had been married three times, she was hard, cold, and did everything by

the book.

One morning the two nurses who were to attend to Edith were sick. Edith

had the flu and Phyllis Cross had to go in and give her a shot. When she

walked in, Edith had a big smile on her face and said, "Phyllis, God

loves you and I love you, and I have been praying for you."

Phyllis Cross said, "Well, you can quit praying for me, it won't work.

I'm not interested."

Edith said, "Well, I will pray and I have asked God not to let me go

home until you come into the family."

Phyllis Cross said, "Then you will never die because that will never

happen," and curtly walked out of the room.

Every day Phyllis Cross would walk into the room and Edith would say,

"God loves you Phyllis and I love you, and I'm praying for you."

One day Phyllis Cross said she was literally drawn to Edith's room like

a magnet would draw iron. She sat down on the bed and! Edith said, "I'm

so glad you have come, because God told me that today is your special

day."

Phyllis Cross said, "Edith, you have asked everybody here the question,

"Do you believe in Easter but you have never asked me."

Edith said, "Phyllis, I wanted to many times, but God told me to wait

until you asked, and now that you have asked."

Edith Burns took her Bible and shared with Phyllis Cross the Easter

Story of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Edith said,

"Phyllis, do you believe in Easter? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is

alive and that He wants to live in your heart?"

Phyllis Cross said, "Oh I want to believe that with all of my heart,

and I do want Jesus in my life. "Right there, Phyllis Cross prayed and

invited Jesus Christ into her heart. For the first time Phyllis Cross

did not walk out of a hospital room, she was carried out on the wings of

angels.

Two days later, Phyllis Cross came in an! d Edith said, "Do you know what

day it is?" Phyllis Cross said, "Why Edith, it's Good Friday."

Edith said, "Oh, no, for you every day is Easter. Happy Easter

Phyllis!"

Two days later, on Easter Sunday, Phyllis Cross came into work, did

some of her duties and then went down to the flower shop and got some

Easter lilies because she wanted to go up to see Edith and give her some

Easter lilies and wish her a Happy Easter.

When she walked into Edith's room, Edith was in bed. That big black

Bible was on her lap. Her hands were in that Bible. There was a sweet

smile on her face. When Phyllis Cross went to pick up Edith's hand, she

realized Edith was dead. Her left hand was on John 14: "In my Father's

house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you, I will come

again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be

also." Her right hand was on Revelation 21:4, "And God will wipe away

every tear from their eyes, there shall be no more death nor sorrow, nor

crying; and there shall be no more pain, for the former things have

passed away."

Phyllis Cross took one look at that dead body, and then lifted her face

toward heaven, and with tears streaming down here cheeks, said, "Happy

Easter, Edith - Happy Easter!"

Phyllis Cross left Edith's body, walked out of the room, and over to a

table where two student nurses were sitting. She said, "My name is

Phyllis Cross. Do you believe in Easter?"

Thank you to my cousin who sent me this email. I BELIEVE!

[chri'stina 190]

stina... *hugs*

Thank you so much for starting this thread. Today is a very emotional day for me. Not only will I be celebrating the resurrection of my Savior, Jesus Christ.... I will also be remembering my mother. She died one year ago TODAY.

I would like to add one of my favorite scriptural verses to this thread... I have so many favorite verses... lol

1 Peter 1:3

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... (NIV)

My wish and prayer for all of you this Easter weekend... is that you will be blessed... and loved.

*hugs to you all*

Lynne

I'm sorry for your loss one year ago , I pray you are filled with comfort.

[Scott & Lai 12]

This is my favorite Easter poem:

Make no mistake: if He rose at all

it was as His body.

if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules

reknit, the amino acids rekindle,

the Church will fall.

It was not as the flowers,

each soft Spring recurrent;

it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled

eyes of the eleven apostles;

it was as His flesh: ours.

The same hinged thumbs and toes,

the same valved heart

that—pierced—died, withered, paused, and then

regathered out of enduring Might

new strength to enclose.

Let us not mock God with metaphor,

analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;

making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the

faded credulity of earlier ages:

let us walk through the door.

The stone is rolled back, not papier-mâché,

not stone in a story,

but the vast rock or materiality that in the slow

grinding of time will eclipse for each of us

the wide light of day.

And if we will have an angel at the tomb,

make it a real angel,

weighty with Max Planck’s quanta, vivid with hair,

opaque in the dawn light, robed in real linen

spun on a definite loom.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,

for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,

lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are

embarrassed by the miracle,

and crushed by remonstrance.

John Updike: “Seven Stanzas at Easter”

[Dixie_Peach 1]

stina... *hugs*

Thank you so much for starting this thread. Today is a very emotional day for me. Not only will I be celebrating the resurrection of my Savior, Jesus Christ.... I will also be remembering my mother. She died one year ago TODAY.

I would like to add one of my favorite scriptural verses to this thread... I have so many favorite verses... lol

1 Peter 1:3

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... (NIV)

My wish and prayer for all of you this Easter weekend... is that you will be blessed... and loved.

*hugs to you all*

Lynne

I'm sorry for your loss one year ago , I pray you are filled with comfort.

Thank you!

[chri'stina 190]

Thanks for that poem Scott