Are you alone this easter?

Hi there,
I hope that you're well and doing ok.
No doubt you've been busy rushing around doing different jobs, and carrying on working.
With all the rushing around this busy week, it's suddenly dawned on me that sometimes we can find ourselves alone at easter.
Perhaps it's you, perhaps you've lost someone this year, that at easter time you think back of all those lovely times you've had together, and that at easter time it might be filled with no many happy memories.
Some of you might have lots of friends but feel lonely, some of you might be so consumed with your work, that even if it is a long weekend, you simply can't leave it alone and have time with your family.
I'm not going to put some christian slant on it, but rather, look at someone else, the thief that hung on the cross next to Jesus.
When you have addictions, you simply can't leave it, no matter what it is, it always starts small.
Then it grows like some sort of disease.
You see Jesus didn't need to save himself, he didn't need to prove anything on that cross, he only needed people to come to him, but they came to him with insults and abuse, and beatings.
It was the thief that stopped in his tracks, and humbly repented of what he had done.
My friend if you're in that ''can't reach out to anyone because no one understands me'' thinking, that's what the Thief thought, but he had faith, to believe in God.
Because he is indeed the King of the Jews.
We might, think oh yes, he was, but not now, not in my life, I don't have time.
Maybe you've been constantly critised by people that you know, and bit by bit you can't trust anyone, and you're wondering if you can trust God.
How we relate to people also reflects on how we are with God, we might just be like that with him.
Will he be kind when people have been unkind to us?
Will he hold me, in the mist of pain and suffering when no one really knows?
Does he know about my addictions?
Jesus is there, and he knows everything, and he is not a see through God.
He's not a one way God, if you've run off settled for more, but one way or another you have settled for less, God knows.
If you see no way through, God does.
And trusting him means, through thick and thin, through the waves and storms, through the calm, through all of it.
It was easy to trust God when the going is smooth, but what happens if it's not so?
Can you still say, ''this is my song this is my story, I will keep praising God though the storm?''
God doesn't want us to to insults constantly, but sometimes, it's a good thing when you don't take insults to heart, because you have better character. And you are showing them kindness by not retaliating, because , they might, have all their lives, being blamed for things that that is all that they know.
But if they see you being responsible, and not making excuses, it's you telling them, this is the way to live.
The Thief was held responsible for the things he did on earth, but Jesus was the king of the jews, and he thought that if he was a king, he has the mind to over look his plight on that cross, and Jesus did.
Perhaps you need him in your life, that for so many years you've tried to over look it, but can't.
Jesus can help you.
That's all I want to share with you today.
Chloe