This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. (Psalm 118:24)

We’ve had a year of struggle, quarantine, death, sickness, unemployment, furloughs, zoom meetings, election disputes, national division, splintered friendships, but today is a day to rejoice and be glad for Jesus Christ has risen from the grave and has restored us ALL!  His suffering, his death, and his rising was for you, for me, for us ALL!  Let us rejoice and be glad!  2020 and 2021 have been our time in the desert, our time on the cross, our time of suffering, our time in the tomb, but it’s now our time to rise with Jesus and to rejoice with ALL of our sisters and brothers in Heaven and on earth!  Rise above sin today!  Rise above anger today!  Rise above hate today!  Rise above arguments today!  Rise above greed and stubbornness and drama and all that divides us today!  Let us rejoice and be glad, my sisters and brothers in Christ, for He is risen and we have been given the freedom from sin and death!  Amen