Today's "Lent Encouragement" is by Will.

Easter is always a special time. Soon after we moved to Hartford, I attended a Maundy Thursday service at the Methodist church. It was lovely to come together with brothers and sisters in the parish to think about that journey to the cross and what Jesus accomplished for us there. That picture of unity is something that has stayed with me. I love these verses from Colossians 1: "The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

You can read the whole of Colossians 1 here.