Here are some other memories I had from this weekend…
- The hundreds of excited children who stampeded across our lawn to collect the 10,000-12,000 Easter Eggs stuffed full of candy & prizes.
- The man who came up to me weeping after one of our services saying that he had just accepted Christ as Savior — he was smiling & crying & broken & celebrating…all at the same time. And he hugged me so hard that he literally hugged the wind out of me.
- The excitement I felt about getting to "sleep in" on Sunday morning & drive to church with my family, since our very early review & prayer time was already done by Saturday afternoon.
- The Grace ministry leader who told me that, after attending church for years & hearing dozens of Easter messages, he finally "got it" — he "got" why the resurrection is SO PIVOTAL to our faith as followers of Jesus
The little girl who attended her first "big church" and drew this picture for me. She came up to me after service & presented it to me. (If you click on the picture, you can see she drew the worshipers, the empty tomb on the left, the cross on the right, all 3 big screens with the cross on the, and me on stage in front of the flowers.)
- My 2 children, who have started attending the adult worship, listening to Dad, & taking notes after their 2 Sunday school classes.
- The refreshing feeling of 40 degree rain spritzing me on the nearly deserted streets Sunday afternoon as I put in my last "long run" (a 12-miler) before next week's Boston Marathon.
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