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I know it is past Easter, but I wanted to post something else that day, so I'll tell you about our Easter today. Our church had Easter Sunrise Service at a local landmark known as Signal Rock. It is so appropriate of a location for a couple of reasons. First this outcropping of sandstone has a clear view of the distant range known as the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Being translated the Spaniards had named this range "Blood of Christ Mountains." So we gaze afar at the blood of Christ on Easter morn. We stand on the Signal Rock, so named because its visibility made it a place the Indians sent smoke signals by day or fire signals by night. Fisher Peak is visible 150 miles to the south. From there it was easy to send a signal far eastward or south to Johnson Mesa, and from there deep into New Mexico. When the Comanche controlled this area, they could send messages deep into their southern ranges in a matter of an hour or so. Well, Christian, do we have a message to send? Does it not concern the blood of Christ? Christ loved us so much, that he shed his blood for the people that rejected and cursed Him. Was it not my sin and yours that He paid for with that blood? He rose on the first day of the week that He might provide everlasting life for anyone who will accept the facts. We are sinners. The wages of sin is death. He (Christ) paid that debt on the cross. He has risen, and has gone to prepare a place for us (John 14). Ain't that what Easter is all about? Ain't that the greatest story ever told? He did it so we can have a personal relationship with Him! Have yourselves a good Sunday mornin'!

The sun is risen! The Son is risen!
 
Thanks Shortgrass! Those Indians were pretty smart to be able to communicate that way, back in the days before they had cell phones and email! :wink:

It crossed my mind that the Indians from the old days had to be paying attention to get the smoke signal message. As we today have to pay attention and heed the message Jesus is trying to get across to us.

Today at church we will read Luke 24: 35-48. Jesus had to spell it out for the disciples. He showed them his wounds and ate fish to prove it was really Him because those guys still didn't get the simple message of Easter. Jesus died and rose again so we can too.
 
Thanks, Shortgrass, and to you also, John SD. God sacrificed His only Son, so that we might not perish but have Eternal Life. What a great and generous gift, but if we don't "open the package" and accept the Gift, it does us absolutely no good.

Hope calving is going well for both of you. We were blessed with a bit of rain again last night. Yesterday morning there was three inches of wet snow on the ground, but it all melted by noon. Wind has not been a factor, so these latest moisture events have been mighty welcome.

Have a great week, everyone.
 
Thanks for the message, Shortgrass... Easter or not it's always good to hear the "Good News". I was just checking my E-mail and I thought I'd share...it's in keeping with your American Indian story. Have a great Sunday.


Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone.. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.

We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

Moral of the story: Just because you can't see God, doesn't mean He is not there.

'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' He's promised to never leave us or forsake us ( Hebrews 13:5).
 

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