Hello Everyone

Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Halleluiah!

A Message to you all This Easter Monday

The mark of the cross

Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple

and that God’s spirit lives in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16 (New International Version)

Extract from Facing the Storm, by Eddie Askew first published 1989.

Behind the carved oak pulpit in the old church, I noticed a mark on the worn wall. At first glance, I thought it was just a random roughness, a shadow on the stone. Then I realised it was the outline of a cross. It must have hung there for years and, when taken down, it left the mark on the wall.

As individual Christians we leave a mark. Most of us lead unremarkable lives.

Actually, I’m not so sure of that. When you get to know people, you find few who are ‘ordinary’. No one is exactly like another. Each is remarkable in individual experience. Each of us has something of value to give. But we lead unspectacular lives, rarely producing headlines in the newspapers. Yet our presence in the world, our faithful performance of the little acts of daily living, makes its mark.

There are times when we feel useless. We can’t stop the steamroller of world events without getting flattened. No-one listens to the thin sound of our protest. But ‘your living shall not be in vain’, as the song puts it. We make our mark and, however small it is, it’s our mark, and the world will never be quite the same again.

God grant the mark we leave is the mark of the cross. I may not see its cosmic breadth, or deep significance – sounds pompous anyway – but in the faithful living out and quiet affirmation of this day’s duty, lies worth, and joy.

And on some wall a mark is made. A mark of love, shaped like a cross.

Hope you are having a Very Happy and Peaceful Easter.

Peter