It’s the Monday after Easter weekend and I wasn’t planning on recording a podcast today but I shared something with my family yesterday when we gathered to celebrate Resurrection Sunday together and woke up this morning feeling like I wanted to pass it on…

Maybe because it’s the day after…

You know the feeling I’m talking about…like the day after Christmas or any big event when you wake up after days or weeks of preparation and anticipation. And I always experience a little of that after Easter except it’s like a holy hangover haha

And I always have the thought after any focused celebration that this should be our normal. This is why I talk about living intentionally all the time because it can be… we just have to be intentional about living the life we are called to live and not the one that is fighting for our attention.

I’m not saying it’s easy but it is doable …you just have to make some intentional changes in your life. I know I say this a lot but I think we need to be reminded of it a lot haha

If we aren’t intentional about how we want to live life. LIFE WILL LIVE US!

So yesterday was Resurrection Sunday and as II was taking in the sunrise on Easter morning and a side note we actually had a “Nor’easter” weather-wise here in North Florida. So the air had a different feel about it and I found myself thinking about how the atmosphere felt the morning Jesus walked out of that tomb.

Was it a sunny day or overcast with an ominous feeling in the air?

I then wondered what the people that mourned his death and had followed him and loved him woke up thinking…

Did they wake up to the sting of death and loss?

Or did they wake up full of faith believing what he had said would happen?

Did they wake up wanting so much to choose hope and believe in all that he had told them but everything they could see with their physical eyes crushed any sign of hope? 

Many that believed had been there and seen the life go from his body.

I found myself writing and asking myself what would I have expected that morning.

Would I have been overcome with grief and wanting to stay in bed and grieve

 or would I have been full of hope and anticipation of what was to come….

Even if I didn’t see how it could happen…I believed it would.

I might not know how I would have woken up that day…

But I know how I wanted to wake up today…

Full of faith and hope 

Confident that even if I can’t see or understand the how…My hope and confidence is in him

We are resurrection people.

We believe in a savior that conquered death and opened the way for eternal life and a life of power and freedom for anyone who believes

So what are we believing?

That’s it…

Let’s not just call ourselves believers…

Let’s believe.

 I hope you have a power-filled friend.

Love you guys!

Talk soon!