Happy Resurrection Day!

HAPPY RESURRECTION DAY!

Today is the day in which we celebrate our Lord's triumph over the grave!

LOW IN THE GRAVE HE LAY

Words & Music By: Robert Lowry

Verse 1: Low in the grave He lay, Jesus my Savior,Waiting the coming day, Jesus my Lord!

Refrain

Up from the grave He arose, With a mighty triumph o’er His foes, He arose a Victor from the dark domain, And He lives forever, with His saints to reign.He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!

Verse 2: Vainly they watch His bed, Jesus my Savior; Vainly they seal the dead, Jesus my Lord!

Refrain

Verse 3: Death cannot keep its Prey, Jesus my Savior; He tore the bars away, Jesus my Lord!

Refrain

THE EMPTY CROSS
The eve of Golgotha had come,

And Christ lay shrouded in the garden tomb,

Among the olives, oh, how dumb,

How sad the sun incarnadined the gloom!

The hill grew dim—the pleading cross

Reached empty arms toward the closing gate.

Jerusalem, oh, count thy loss!

Oh, hear ye! hear ye! ere it be too late!

Reached bleeding arms—but how in vain!

The murmurous multitude within the wall

Already had forgot His pain—

Tomorrow would forget the cross—and all!

They knew not Rome, before its sign,

Bending her brow bound with the nation’s threne,

Would sweep all lands from Nile to Rhine

In servitude unto the Nazarene.

Nor knew that millions would forsake

Ancestral shrines great with the glow of time,

And lifting up its token shake

Æons with thrill of love or battle’s crime.

With empty arms aloft it stood:

Ah, Scribe and Pharisee, ye builded well!

The cross emblotted with His blood

Mounts, highest hope of men, against earth’s hell!

By: Cale Young Rice, Plays and Lyrics, 1906

I hope you all had a wonderful day to celebrate the Lord's goodness to us in dieing for our sins so that we might have eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. I hope to bless you all with some pictures from today later (when I have more time), but for now you can click here for Easter 2007 and here for a great cookie recipe from Easter 2008. The beautiful graphics are by: Abigail Paul. God bless you!

He Lives!

~Miss Shiloh A. Strang