A Day After Easter Song

The past few weels leading up to Easter I saw a couple posts in some of the Facebook groups I'm in asking for song ideas for Easter playlists. This morning, which happened to be the day after Easter, I was listening to Spotify when this song came on.

 

I had this album on vinyl for many years and I had forgotten about this song.  As I listened to it I realized it's the perfect song for the day after Easter.

Easter is a very important day for the Christian world.  It's a very important day for the entire world.  One can easily make the argument that Good Friday and Easter are the crux of the Christian movement. (Interestingly, the word crux as defined by Merriam Webster as the most essential, pivotal, or decisive point of an issue, argument, or problem is derived form the Latin word for cross).  While I would not argue against that supposition , I would add that Christmas and the day after Easter are equally crucial (crucial originates from the Latin wor

d crux).  When I say Christmas I mean the incarnation of Jesus as God become man and when I say the day after Easter, I mean our reaction to the death and resurrection of Jesus.

The lyrics can be found here.

I have also reprinted them below ...

He's in you.

He's risen from the dead.

He's in you.

Alive just like He said

It's over

The battle has been won.

The price is paid

Darkness now has faded 

Into his light

He's in you. 

The promise has come true.

He's In you

There's nothing left to do.

It's over.

His kingdom now is coming to your heart.

Just let the Master start

His work in you

Let him start.

He's in you.

The mysteries been revealed

He's in you.

By His spirit you've been sealed

It's over.

New life has begun now in the Son.

The Old has passed away,

Nailed to His Cross.

I pray that the Lord of Life

Will open up your eyes

I pray that you'll see this mystery.

I hope that you'll see that His holy place is open to you now.

You can enter in let his rest begin

He's in you.

He's risen from the dead.

He's in you.

Alive just like He said

It's over

The battle has been won.

The price is paid

Darkness now has faded 

Into his light

Into His Light

Amazing Grace

How Sweet he SOund

That Saved a wretch like me

You know I once was lost

But Now Am found

But now I see

You know I truly see.

I think life is a reaction to Easter.

This song does a very good job of summarizing that.

Adventure

 This is the first year since 2018 that I am not participating in the A to Z challenge. This is not an April Fool's joke.  I decided last year that I was going to take a sabbatical from one if not my most favorite blogging events.  I do plan to participate as a reader and commenter of other participating blogs.

April is also National Poetry Month, and this year I do plan to write some poems and publish them here.  I will even try to have the poem titles match the A to Z letter of the day.  To that end, I will now shre two haikus I wrote today on the back end of a impromptu road trip I took from Chicago area to St. Louis area and back today.  One is appropriately called Adventure

Adventure

Roads of adventure

Trees lay barren, friendship blooms

Memories echo

Here's the so far untitled other haiku

Lights from wind turbines

Silent thunder of crickets

Dusk train slumbers on

Since today is also Wednesday.  I thought I'd slip in one of my kid's favorite songs when growing up Adventure is A wonderful Thing from Winnie The Pooh's Grand Adventure as part of Midweek Music Break.