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To the fellowship:
One anthem featured on Easter has never been offered in public. I wrote the words and music for a virtual offering during the pandemic (See below for that YouTube link).
Pastor Jay confirms that Christ's followers did not know he would rise in three days. It could have been three years for all they knew. We remember this well during our distanced worship. By the time this anthem was written, we were a year in, wondering when it would all be over and life could have some normalcy again. Please read the words below through that lens.
Easter, Remind Us
Were they anxious and perplexed?
Would Christ rise day after next?
None could cite that ancient text.
Easter, remind us.
Lies were Satan’s stranglehold:
“Was it true what you were told?
You’ll be left here unconsoled.”
But their faith would soon resume
When they found an empty tomb.
Naught but linen to exhume.
Am I Thomas, who denied
All accounts his friends supplied?
Must I see His hands and side?
Am I Mary Magdalene,
Who, expecting, freed from sin,
Brought her oils and spices in?
Children, do we hold The Creed?
Do we have the faith we need?
Mountain-mover? Mustard seed?
Seems we’re in a God-Eclipse.
Words of worry on our lips,
Restless, drumming fingertips.
Can we keep our brave veneer
When our “Third Day” makes a year?
Will the Faithful’s faith adhere?
Easter, when we feel unmoored,
Give us hope to climb toward;
Signal to the Risen Lord!
Easter, remind us!
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