"Why do you keep filling gallery after gallery with endless pictures of the one ever-reiterated theme of Christ in weakness, of Christ upon the cross, Christ dying, Christ hanging dead? Why do you stop there as if the curtain closed upon that horror? Keep the curtain open, and with the cross in the foreground, let us see beyond it to the Easter dawn with its beams streaming upon the risen Christ, Christ alive, Christ Ruling, Christ Triumphant. For we should be ringing out over the world that Christ has won, that evil is toppling, that the end is sure, and that death is followed by victory. This is the tonic we need to keep us healthy, the triumphant blast to fire our blood and send us crowding behind our master, swinging happily upon our way, laughing, and singing, and recklessly unafraid, because the feel of victory is in the air, and our hearts thrill to it."
Michelangelo
"I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you."
Isaiah 44:22 (via hisstorythroughmine)
You don’t know where you can go, if you just continue following God.
2Goodnight :)
The Stand - Hillsong United
You stood before creation
Eternity within Your hand
You spoke the earth into motion
My soul now to stand
You stood before my failure
Carried the Cross for my shame
My sin weighed upon Your shoulders
My soul now to stand
So what can I say
What can I do
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You
So I’ll walk upon salvation
Your Spirit alive in me
This life to declare Your promise
My soul now to stand
So what can I say
What can I do
But offer this heart O God
Completely to You
So I’ll stand
With arms high and heart abandoned
In awe of the One who gave it all
So I’ll stand
My soul Lord to You surrendered
All I am is Yours
Lead me to the Cross
