Do you ever wonder if you have the “right stuff”—the necessary qualities for a given task or job? When I read novels about the early American pioneers and all they endured to settle the West, I wonder if I would have had the “right stuff” to survive. What kind of pioneer spirit would I have possessed if I lived during that time? When I watch an occasional episode of “The Amazing Race”, I find myself wondering if I could…
We do not always celebrate “empty”. An empty gas tank, an empty wallet, empty talk, empty promises, an empty crème filled donut, an empty cookie jar, an empty stomach when it’s time to take medicine, an empty bank account, an empty ATM machine when we need cash.
Yet there are two things at least that we can celebrate because they are empty. The first reality is that the Cross is empty. And the second reality is that the tomb is empty. As believing Christians, we celebrate that Jesus did not stay upon the Cross, but instead, He was buried and on the…