Happy EASTER!!!!

Happy Easter everyone! Here's an email I received from one of my friends and his wife. I think it pretty much explains it...

Have a Blessed Easter

You know I have read many times in the Book of John the story of John and Peter going to the tomb..

"Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen." John 20-6-7



I ask you, what did Peter see when he looked in the tomb...a empty tomb, linens laying around, no body where they had laid one? Yes, all those things, but recently I read something I want to share with you from a book called "The Carpenter's Cloth", that made me see that Peter saw something else.



"During Jesus' time there was one way a carpenter let the contractor know a job was finished. A signature, so to speak.

Imagine a hot afternoon in Galilee, Jesus has completed the final pieces of a job he has worked on for several days. The hair on his strong forearms is matted with sawdust and sweat. His face is shiny with heat. He takes a final--and welcome-- drink of cool water from a leather bag.

Then, standing to the side of his work, he pours water over his face and chest, splashing it over his arms to clean himself before his journey home. With a nearby towel, he pats his face and arms dry.

Finally, Jesus fold the towel neatly in half, and then folds it in half again. He sets it on the finished work and walks away. Later, whoever arrives to inspect the work will the towel and understand its simple message. The work is finished.

Christ's disciples, of course, knew the carpenter's tradition. On a Sunday of sorrow, three years after Jesus had set aside his carpenter tools, Peter will crouch to look into an empty tomb and see only the linens that the risen Lord has left behind.


A smile will cross Peter's face as his sorrow is replaced by hope, for he will see the wrap that had covered Jesus' face. It had been folded in half, then folded in half again and left neatly on the floor of the tomb.

Peter understands. The carpenter has left behind a simple message. IT IS FINISHED!” …. The Carpenter’s Cloth, by Sigmund Brouwer



Now we know what Peter really saw when He looked in the tomb!
Job completed….salvation paid for!

HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED!

From Our hearts to yours....Have a blessed Easter Resurrection Day!

Love and blessings,


G & H