Ginny - from Lysa

Hey Girlz!!!

Since we've decided to take the Lysa route, I wanted to share with y'all my all time favorite blog of her's. It's from Easter last year, and even this year as I sat in the pew Sunday morning I thought of her words. I hope your heart is revived as mine was at her simple thought...the stir.

The Stir
You know what my favorite part of the Easter miracle is? It’s hard to choose a favorite, but I have one.
It’s not the stone rolling away.
It’s not the burial clothes left behind.
It’s not the disciples reaction when they saw our risen Lord.
It’s not the nail marks still present. It’s not what Jesus said before ascending to heaven. Although each of those snapshots of reality represent truth so profound the breath slips from my chest, they aren’t what makes my soul leak tears.
No.
It’s the stir.
The stir no one saw.
That first second Jesus twitched beneath the burial clothes and death lost her sting. Hope, glorious, glorious hope rose in that second when the world still felt the weight of death. Hope twitched. Hope moved. Hope stirred. And Jesus arose.
God reminds us of the stir in so many ways.
A branch looks dead and yet a stir is happening in places we can’t see. Places that soon burst forth green life.
A drought threatens to dry out the life of everything planted and yet a stir is happening in places we can’t see. A wind shifts, a cloud bursts, and heaven pours forth.
A woman is told her womb will not and yet a stir is happening in places we can’t see. Her baby will come through a stranger’s womb and in an instant her arms are filled.
The stir no one saw.
The stir we so often miss.
The stir we so desperately need to remember.
The stir was.
The stir is.
The stir will forever be.
Even when we can’t see it.
He is risen, my friend. And because He is risen we can know there is a stir happening behind whatever tomb threatens to close over our hope today.Yes, there is a stir happening in places we can’t see. He is risen indeed.