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Posted by Julie Dyson on Sunday, 23 March 2008

What are your reflections of Easter 2008?
For me Easter at Lee Abbey in North Devon takes some beating!  It's an opportunity to be together in community in one of the most beautiful parts of God's earth, sitting at the foot of a cross on Good Friday on a hillside overlooking the sea contemplating what Christ did for me, celebrating communion on the beach at 6am on Easter Day ... so many memories  .... Easter 2007 was spent in North Carolina in a huge all singing, all dancing anonymous American church ... 

Easter 2008 was here in Brentwood ... cold, drab, windy but ...
On Maundy Thursday  we were reminded that in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus Christ, Saviour of the world was thinking of you and I; that when He chose to be obedient to the Father and go to the cross you and I were on His mind ...

On Good Friday morning we thought again about Jesus innocence and our sin; He who had done no wrong, dying in our place ...

Together  with other Christians  in the town we processed behind a carried cross united in our belief that Jesus died for all; theological differences did not matter in  that moment in time.

It's Friday .. but Sunday's coming!!

Sunday came and means

I can have confidence in Jesus.                                                                                 
I can have new life; a life of passion, purity, purpose and permanence.                                                                                      
I can be forgiven.                                                                                           
I can have hope.