Easter 2007 Rumblings and Ramblings

Here it is about 3 a.m. Easter morning, and I am wide awake. It has been a year since I last posted here! (Does anybody care?) I continue to journal "by hand," but I obviously don't yet relate very well to this blogging business.

I've been on the internet googling a couple names. Both, now divorced from each other, have left their fundamental evangelical background and ministry and are active and public in their reactions to it. Their stories sober me, especially in light of my efforts to make sense of my own similar background.

I went back to bed and lay there, conscious of it being Easter, reviewing the basics: Jesus, the Christ, lived, died, and rose again! I belive that; I believe him. The basic, FUNDAMENTAL, essential question is, What do you believe about Jesus? Everything else flows from that.

I choose to hang on for dear life to this root belief, wrestling with all that follows. My rampant flesh loves any justification of indulging its temptations. But I cannot let go of Jesus. He is Lord. He is risen. He is risen indeed!