i'd like to share with you that tonight i was very blessed by a good friday service. they talked about peter's denials, and they gave us all a piece of paper and pens and we wrote how we had denied Him (my paper, sadly, was very full :( ) and they had a cross in the middle and they supplied nails and hammers, and we all nailed our papers to it. when i went up, i was barely able to sit there but i nailed my paper really hard! i wanted to drive the nail so hard it went out the other side, but as i was hitting my paper, another person's nail fell off so i stopped. i was just dazed and went back to my seat and just sobbed, wow, the Lord is so very, very kind to us wretches...

hope this blesses.
h

Out of darkness and despair; GOD brought hope,
Out of shame and sorrow, GOD brought comfort,
Out of death; GOD brought forth resurrection
and life,
Out of tragedy, GOD brought forth triumph!!

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Martin G. Smith