Happy Easter….Christ is risen!
On Easter morning, our church alter displays a host of Easter
lilies. These sweet offerings remind us of God’s blessing for each of us.
Tradition associates the blooming of the flower where Christ’s sweat fell to
the ground while on the cross. We too are like the Easter lily, leaving the
darkness behind and blooming in the way of Christ. Give your darkness of
struggles, challenges, and fears to our savior and rejoice in hope everlasting.
Look upward to Christ, ask for his presence and grow in the light. Blessed are
the Easter lilies!
Easter morn with lilies fair
Fills the church with perfumes rare,
As their clouds of incense rise,
Sweetest offerings to the skies.
Stately lilies pure and white
Flooding darkness with their light,
Bloom and sorrow drifts away,
On this holy hallow’d day.
Easter Lilies bending low
in the golden afterglow,
Bear a message from the sod
To the heavenly towers of God.
-Louise Lewin Matthews
Fills the church with perfumes rare,
As their clouds of incense rise,
Sweetest offerings to the skies.
Stately lilies pure and white
Flooding darkness with their light,
Bloom and sorrow drifts away,
On this holy hallow’d day.
Easter Lilies bending low
in the golden afterglow,
Bear a message from the sod
To the heavenly towers of God.
-Louise Lewin Matthews
Available on the Internet:
http://www.appleseeds.org/easter-lily.htm
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