We decided to go to my parents' house outside of Austin for Easter, and they have a church there that they attend when they are there called Celebration Church. The church had three or four options for their Easter Sunday services, and we decided to get ourselves out of bed and go to the 7 AM sunrise service.
I didn't really know what to expect because I had never had the option to go to a sunrise service before, but I do know that 6 AM on Easter Sunday feels a lot earlier than 6 AM on a typical workday.
We all readied ourselves in the dark of the house, piled in the Tahoe and headed up to church. They had us park in the back of the church, which I thought was a little odd, but then we found out that the service was going to be outside. We walked over to where they had golf carts that would take you up this windy path to the top of a hill.
The music greeted us before we got there; the sounds of the band checking their microphones and tuning their guitars. Suddenly, we came to a stop and we all piled out.
There were maybe 100 chairs set up behind a stage that was made out of a white tent. All around us, there was fog. It was eerie and beautiful at the same time. Off to the right there was a cross where people would go and stand for a minute just to be reminded of Christ's sacrifice.
By far, it was the most peaceful and serene Easter service I'd ever been to. The weight of the fog surrounded us and isolated us from all the distractions of the nearby town, and the pastor even commented on us sitting "in the middle of God's favor", represented by the fog. I thought that was such an amazing visual of His love for us, and how we can't ever see the end of it, but we can see and feel it's presence.
"The whole creation waits breathless with anticipation
for the revelation of God's sons and daughters."
Romans 8:19
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