This past week as I was preparing for Easter Sunday, my mind drifted back to 5 years ago when, for the first time in my 46 years of pastoral ministry, I was at home during Easter Sunday morning. The reason that we were not meeting was because of the Covid 19 epidemic which shut down churches across the country. I remember that Sunday morning walking outside in the sunshine and feeling like I should be worshipping with other believers somewhere.

My wife and I did watch a service that was recorded earlier in the week, but it just wasn’t the same.

This Easter I was feeling like David where in Psalms 122 he said, “I rejoiced with those who said to me, ‘ Let us go to the house of the Lord.’

“ Each time during these last 4 years my mind does go back to that one time that we did not meet, and my heart rejoices for the privilege, opportunity and freedom I have to celebrate corporately the Resurrection of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My prayer is that I can continue to be able to do so till the Lord calls me home.