“The road is long but I will make it! That's who I am!
It's not the race, but how I'm running, not who I was, but who I'm becoming.
Steady on, I'll finish strong on this path. Hallelujah today!
With every mile I'm reminded that I never go empty-handed.
God is my strength. I'm never stranded. I'm not alone. Hallelujah today!
Calling out like a siren of good and peace and joy resounding!
Hear me now — I'm ringing out around the world!” Hallelujah today!
In every song I sing, in every part of me, in everything — Hallelujah!
Every breath in me proclaims, ‘Hallelujah today!’”
Responsive Reading for Easter Sunday, April 21
“After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary [mother of James of Alphaeus] came to see the tomb . . . . an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, approached, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it. Then the angel said to the women in reply, ‘Do not be afraid! I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples. Then they went away quickly from the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed and ran to announce this to his disciples (Mt., 28:1-10).
“The road is long but I will make it! That's who I am!
It's not the race, but how I'm running, not who I was, but who I'm becoming.
Steady on, I'll finish strong on this path.” Hallelujah today!
“Very early when the sun had risen, on the first day of the week, [the women] came to the tomb. They were saying to one another, ‘Who will roll back the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?’ When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back; it was very large” (Mark 16:2-4).
“With every mile I'm reminded that I never go empty-handed.
God is my strength. I'm never stranded. I'm not alone.” Hallelujah today!
“At daybreak on the first day of the week they …went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them …[and] said to them, ‘Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here, but has been raised. Remember what he said to you while he was still in Galilee….’ And they remembered his words. When they returned from the tomb and announced all these things…” (Lk. 24:1-8).
“Calling out like a siren of good and peace and joy resounding!
Hear me now — I'm ringing out around the world!” Hallelujah today!
“On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were … Jesus came and stood in their midst …. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the holy Spirit . . . .’ Believe . . . that through this believe you may have life in his name” (John 20:19-29).
In every song I sing, in every part of me, in everything — Hallelujah!
Every breath in me proclaims, “Hallelujah today!”