Back in Mississippi

The time at home is California is over and its time to get back to work in Mississippi. The trip back was certainly much less event filled than the trip out to California last week. There were no delays and my luggage actually arrived with me.

But with Easter now behind us and Christmas a long way off this seems to be the time when Christians kind of relax. We have celebrated Christ's birth and His resurrection and there is a natural let down.

Months of working on special music and programs are over. All the special services for Lent have been completed and most Christians go into the what now mode.

I submit that we should be celebrating Easter everyday. The resurrection of Christ was not for only one day. HE IS ALIVE!!!! We should be shouting that from the roof tops. It is the main thing that makes Christianity different from other religious movements. We have a risen Lord and Savior who is here with us everyday.

So as Chrsitians, we should still be as excited as we were yesterday morning when we came together to celebrate our risen Lord.

My wife's church in California did their Easter music service on Saturday. One of the songs they performed was "Was It a Morning Like This". The chorus from this song should resinate with us all year long:

Did the grass sing? Did the earth rejoice to feel you again?
Over and over like a Trumpet underground,
Did the earth seem to pound: “He is risen”
Over and over in a never ending round
“He is risen, alleluia, alleluia!”

Christ rose from the dead that first Easter morning. We should never let that chorus fade.