The FIFTH ACE: When everything looked utterly desperate and bleak... when the Son of God had been killed, God played his 5th Ace - the Resurrection...

And what can you do with such a wild, unexpected, off-limits initiative?...

God rewrote the rules to include a previously unthought-of range of possibilities...

God doesn’t leave us languishing alone in our grief and sorrows;

He’s always looking for cracks in the hard ground where green shoots of hope can squeeze through. If God’s love is unconditional and irrepressible then that’s what you’d expect.’

(Rev John Pritchard, retired Bishop of Oxford)

When everything was dark and it seemed that the sun would never shine again, Your love broke through. Your love was too strong, too wide, too deep for death to hold. ‘Lord I believe. Help my unbelief.’ (Mark 9:24)

'The cross, the hammer, the wood, the nails,

The pain, the sin, the flesh, the bone,

The nerves, the blood.

Christ nailed to the cross.

But so are faith, hope and love,

And these things cannot be killed.

They are the things of God.

‘Lord I believe. Help my unbelief.’ (Mark 9:24)

with love and prayers

Jenny