Easter Thoughts

The Veil Is Rent

The veil is rent! The veil is rent!
What by this awesome sign is meant?
What happens in the sanctuary?
As Jesus dies on Calvary?

The veil is rent! The veil is rent!
The Age of Sacrifice is spent.
Christ opens up the Holy Place
And ushers in His Age of Grace.

From heaven to earth the veil is rent!
We have a lasting sacrament
And enter in to speak with God,
Made holy by our Saviour's blood.
The God of all Grace And Me.

Maurice Cox

Resurrection

May the joy of his resurrection
Fill your heart as you journey along.
May the peace he bequeathed be your portion,
May his love in your heart be a song.

May the hope thus begun become brighter,
May your faith in him firmer be,
Until soon in that first resurrection
His glorious face you shall see. .

Songs of the Nightingale

On Easter

On Easter may your eyes behold
More beauty than can e'er be told,
As heaven's light dispels the gloom
And brings to mind the empty tomb.

Songs of the Nightingale

Seek Roses amongst Thorns

We all need to become like avid rose gardeners,
hunting for buds of beauty within our thorny circumstances. It's a sure cure for complaining. God's little book of Calm, Richard Daly

Proverbs

Proverbs 15.19
The way of the slothful man is an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain

Proverbs 26.9-10
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools. The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
 

Proverbs 24.31
And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.