Favorite day

My favorite day of the year is Easter Sunday. I love it because after taking our punishment and cruelly dying on a cross, our Lord arose from His tomb and thereby defeated satan. He also defeated death and now eternal life belongs to everyone who has accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior.

Easter commemorates all of that and although the kids enjoy looking for Easter eggs and dentists enjoy making money repairing their teeth from too many sweets, Jesus is what is really significant about this day.


A couple of years ago my wife and I along with our pastor and his wife visited Israel and we gazed at a small rocky outfacing that looked like a skull. It was called Golgotha. At the base of the hill was a tomb and it is believed to be the tomb of Jesus. All of the tourists on our trip got to go inside the tomb and it was an emotional moment to say the least. We also walked in the old city of Jerusalem down the via dolorosa, which is Latin for “way of great suffering” and is said to be the path that Jesus walked as He carried His cross towards His crucifixion.


Recently all of my children daughters in law, and grandkids came to Honey Lake Plantation to visit for a glorious week of fun. We had a wonderful time hunting, fishing, cooking marshmallows on a campfire, horseback riding, hiking, riding carts and on and on. A couple of days after they had all returned to their homes, I found myself riding in a car at over 100 miles an hour with a crazy blond, (my wife), trying to make it to an emergency room that was 45 minutes away in an effort to save my life.


We made it and my operation was successful and now I am back at home on the mend. I wrote about all of my blessings during my family’s visit to Honey Lake in WFTD. What a difference a day makes huh? Hey believe it or not last week was not all bad, I was blessed enormously this past week too. Not just in my life being spared, but did you know that I got calls and e-mails that informed me that over ONE THOUSAND people were praying for me on the day of my operation. I was added to prayer lists for several entire churches and ministries and friends galore wrote or called and told me that they were praying for me. I was astonished and humbled at the large number and cannot express enough gratitude.


Some will be surprised that I asked a good friend of mine to write WFTD in my stead as my only way of updating you. This is the same person who spent hundreds of hours designing the WFTD website and has continued helping me with it from time to time particularly troubleshooting it when troublesome things happen like you get three WFTD in one day instead of one. He has been programming it for me pro bono for over ten years now.

Recently out of the blue I wrote to him and expressed to him that I could not remember if I had ever thanked him properly. WFTD has been a wonderful ministry for me and I cannot adequately express to you all of the joy that I have received from writing it and actually hearing of people who have come to know the Lord from it as well as those who have renewed their interest in God’s holy word and using it as a daily tool to guide them through this wicked world, or just to hear that someone’s day was brightened a little by it on occasion.


Ok I mentioned a surprise? The surprise is that my friend is an atheist!


It has been my hope and fervent prayer that somehow he would find the Lord through WFTD or otherwise but to date, no such luck. Some might ask why I would allow an atheist to write this critical WFTD at such a critical juncture where my life was on the line, (or for that matter why would I allow an atheist to write “any” WFTD in my stead).

I detest that satan has blinded him from the truth and that he remains an atheist, but I still love him as a friend and I trusted him to write this for me. I knew that he knew how to log on, compose the message, and publish. I emphasized to him how important it was for me to let those of you who wanted more information to know what was going on and I suggested a verse for him and he did fine.


He asked you to pray for me and now I ask you to pray for him and I ask for you to have patience with him as well as those around you who have not yet seen God’s light yet, even though it streams in at them daily. I would also say never give up on someone no matter how hopeless they might seem.

Remember the demon possessed guy in the cemetery whose chains fell off when confronted by Jesus. I was a hopeless hard case that put Jesus on that cross with my black sins, but guess what? He thought I was worth saving and I am one of those folks for whom He died and arose three days later and my chains fell off too. He knew it is never too late for God to save someone. Nothing is too difficult for God…. Nothing!

Jeremiah 32:17
‘Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You,