by Debbie W. Wilson | Apr 16, 2019 | Easter
The South proclaims the resurrection in panoramic color. But before spring we endured the dead of winter, and there would be no Easter without Good Friday. When I was little, I asked my mother why the day Jesus died was called “Good Friday.” I couldn’t understand why...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Mar 27, 2018 | Easter, Relationship with God
A woman, I’ll call Glenda, walked into our gathering clinging to her friend’s elbow. Glenda has a contagious smile and a rare genetic blindness. At lunch her friend read the menu to her. When I looked at her to share a laugh, I realized her lack of vision prevented...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Apr 11, 2017 | Easter
Did you know that you could grow up in the church and still miss the meaning of Easter? I know, because for many years I did. Photo by: Kazuend I started attending church nine months before I was born, so I could recite the historical facts of Good Friday and Easter...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Mar 28, 2016 | Easter, Faith, Love
Jacob lifted Anna, spun her around, and lightly set her down. “Oh Jacob,” his wife smiled and gently stroked his ear. “How I love you.” The touch on his ear took Jacob back to the day the awl pierced it. Six years of serving his master and five years of loving his...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Mar 21, 2016 | Easter, Eternal Security, Strength
Have you experienced the double blessing of Easter? I started attending a beautiful historic church in Savannah, Georgia nine months before I was born. But the meaning of Easter didn’t impact me until I was in middle school. At a chapel service at Epworth by the Sea,...
by Debbie W. Wilson | Apr 6, 2015 | Easter, Eternal Perspective, Faith, Pain, Pets and Faith, Suffering
My son and I spent the evening before Easter in the pet emergency clinic. Our female standard poodle had woken up vomiting. Bloody diarrhea replaced her nausea as the day wore on. Four different pet emergencies arrived at the clinic about the same time we entered. The...
