GOOD NEWS

Dear Friends

In a world of breaking news---usually bad---yesterday we celebrated the best of the good news---sin and suffering and death don’t have the last word---God has the last word, Love has the last word. “God so loved the world…”

But as I said in my Easter sermon, it is not enough to proclaim the good news of Christ’s resurrection. We must claim it for ourselves and then share it with others by making, creating good news each day by our words and deeds. Beyond words and deeds, we also create good news simply by living with hope and joy in the light and love of Christ. That has a power beyond our knowing, but not beyond someone else’s noticing and experiencing for themselves.

The Garden Island, Kauai’s daily newspaper, has been running a series of articles on the one year anniversary of the flooding that devastated so much of this beautiful island. Last Thursday, the headline was RISING ABOVE THEIR TROUBLES---ANAHOLA RESIDENTS REFLECT ON LIFE CHANGED.

Easter changes everything. Easter is good news. Easter turns the headline CHRIST IS DEAD to CHRIST IS RISEN. Enjoy your risen life and thank God for opportunities to make and share and enjoy good news.

Excuse me now as I read, mark and inwardly digest not the scriptures, but my candy bar which has been patiently waiting in the refrigerator during Lent!

John

P.S. Have some fun---imagine some good news headlines you’d like to find when you pick up the paper on any given day.  This coming October, for example, I’d like to see 

                               THIRD TIME IS CHARM

                       DODGERS WIN WORLD SERIES

And in November of 2020......