[The Mayor]

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April 11, 2009

The Day With No Name

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READ: Romans 8:18-25

If we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. —Romans 8:25

In Louisiana, a woman lies buried beneath a grove of 150-year-old oak trees in the cemetery of an Episcopal church. Only one word is carved on her tombstone: “Waiting.”

A friend of mine knows an elderly pastor who delivered a stirring Good Friday sermon titled “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Comin’.” In a cadence that increases in tempo and volume, his sermon contrasts how the world looked on Friday—when the forces of evil seemed to have triumphed—with how it looked on Sunday. The disciples who lived through both days never doubted God again. They learned that when God seems most absent, He may be closest of all.

The sermon skips one day, though—Saturday—the day with no name. What the disciples lived through in small scale, we now live through on cosmic scale. It’s Saturday on planet earth; will Sunday ever come?

That dark, Golgothan Friday can only be called good because of what happened on Sunday. Easter opened up a crack in a universe winding down toward decay. And someday God will enlarge the miracle of Easter to cosmic scale.

Meanwhile, we wait in hopeful anticipation, living out our days on Saturday, the in-between day with no name.

It’s Saturday. But Sunday’s comin.

Dark was the night—sin warred against us!
Heavy the load of sorrow we bore;
But now we see signs of His coming—
Our hearts glow within us, joy’s cup runneth o’er! —Camp
© Renewal 1941 Norman Camp.

God took the worst deed of history and turned it into the greatest victory.

Bible in One Year: 1 Samuel 17-18; Luke 11:1-28

[alfa6]

Greetings to all the Freeeprs out there it's time for the Friday Flyby. By request a quick look at the Lockheed SR-71. We are gonna get right to the pics tonight so on with the pics.

First up the head on shot.

An SR-71 inflite with an airport in the bckground. Anybody know where by chance?

There's power and then there's raw power, an SR-71 in burner at night. Who has the hot dogs?

A classic picture of the Sr-71 in flight>

Another classic blackbird shot.

And off into the sunset we go as we conclude tonight's Flyby

Y'all have a great Easter weekend and stay safe out there. Replies may be light this evening as alfa6 Sr is in town for the weekend.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[AZamericonnie]

Thank you for our daily bread Mayor & may you have a blessed Easter! *Hugs*

[Kathy in Alaska]

And rounding out the top 3....The Mayor bags the bronze!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mayor, for today’s sustenance for body and soul.