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From: "César García" <
Kitchener@mwc-cmm.org>
Date: Mar 27, 2016 4:30 AM
Subject: Hope
To: "Gehman Mennonite Church" <
info@gehmanmennonitechurch.org>
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| Dear Friends, | "The only thing that has no solution is death," used to say my mother. With this phrase she was trying to give me hope to handle the problems I was facing that seemed to have no solution. But, what do you do when life's circumstances are as overwhelmingly negative and determinant as death? A famous scientist says that while there is life there is hope. But, what do you do when there is no life? |  | It is not just a matter of being optimistic when the world crumbles around us. It is not just simply trying to keep a positive attitude towards life's problems. We follow a person who lived the kind of life that enabled him, in God's power, to overcome the darkest and the most decisive of all adversities: death. That is the foundation of our hope. Today, as we celebrate Easter Sunday, let us remember with hope that Christ has conquered death and therefore the darkest circumstances we face do not have the last word in our lives. In the same way that Vincent van Gogh expresses in his painting "The Raising of Lazarus," Christ himself, like the rising sun, comes to our lives with the power of his resurrection, to bring us a new day in the midst of the darkest night of our existence. Let us ask God for his presence and the power of the resurrection to overcome with hope in the midst of adversities which apparently have no solution. Let us live the kind of life that Christ lived so that in the power of His Spirit we will be raised in newness of life.  | In hope, 
César Garcia, MWC General Secretary |
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