Easter Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Up at 6:30 for the sunrise service and breakfast. Chris was sick today and didn’t go to church, but otherwise it was a beautiful Easter service. After church I went to visit a fellow ABANA member who is in Durham Regional Hospital and not expected to ever regain consciousness. I talked to him and prayed for him for about 1/2 hour, and quietly left. It was like visiting Michael, or my Mom – the person you knew is just not there anymore. I can hope that he is with Christ Jesus, as this day reminds us we can be when we are absent from the body, but I don’t know how much comfort that affords his wife.
Later today David and Tim and their families and Diane and Brooke arrived for Easter dinner. It was a delicious dinner, but without Chris (who went to bed as soon as she got dinner out).
I am grateful for the family – immediate and extended – that I live in. To me, it is the essence of the Easter message.