Happy Easter Day - Alleluia Christ is Risen will be the refrain heard around the world in the Christian Churches except the Orthodox will celebrate one week later (the Russian primarily). Does that mean that Russia will bomb Ukraine today on this sacred day - must check the news. They are wicked people not to stop Putin from this wanton destruction of the Ukrainian people. Attack after attack after attack. This is genocide.
My Lenten post was very interesting today and I post a small portion particularly meaningful to me:
"Isaiah’s words draw us into God’s fulfilled Dream. Sorrow is no more, children grow up in safety, and people enjoy the fruits of their labour. This is no fairy tale, but the reality God is bringing to life. Easter reminds us that resurrection isn’t just a past event, but a glimpse of creation made new. We’re invited to imagine the world as God dreams it to be, where peace, joy, and justice flow freely, and to trust that this vision is already becoming real."
Would that the children of Israel could sleep in peace; so many generations since I was a child and those Israeli children were never safe - not in their homes, not in their schools, not in the streets and not in 2024 when they were attacked once again and murdered in front of their parents; how disgusting that was and will be remembered in the realm of history for the brutality that was dealt out that day by Hamas to the people of Israel and their supporters within Israel; being non Jew did not protect you. I also want safety for the children in Gaza (their parents must throw out Hamas; tell them to get out of Gaza). At the end of the Second World War as the soldiers returned home in Germany their wives took their uniforms and destroyed them that is how it has to happen. Hamas must be destroyed just as Nazism was destroyed by the German people themselves. That is the word of Isaiah - "peace, joy, and justice flow freely and to trust that this vision is already becoming real." In your mercy God, love your world.
Church twice today if I am lucky - the first in London at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the National Musicians Church and the Royal Fusiliers Chapel. I will join them soon and then Church at my own Anglican Church later. Thank you God for bringing the human race to the point where we can see what is happening all around the globe simultaneously. It is a gift that should help us to bring peace and solidarity to the world where greed for money disappears and everyone has a good life. It is possible but will require a complete rewiring of the human brain. This greed for money must disappear from our world; it will destroy it otherwise.
God bless the world and all things created by you that are in it both sentient and insentient (help us to eliminate Satan from our midst on this Easter Day).