The Easter song

The year....1980.
I was managing a restaurant in Gadsden.It was the Saturday before Easter. Got home around 11 p.m and was sitting in the living room with Vicki. We were sharing small talk as the stereo played in the back ground. Both of us had just recently rededicated our lives to Christ. We'd been away on a 7 year journey of darkness and had almost destroyed our marriage.

It was to be our first Easter together as "new" believers. The Radio was set to WDJC and it was a most unusual program. The announcer was not playing any music, but was simply sharing his story of coming to the Lord. Drugs....multiple sex partners....a lifestyle out of control. There was a passion in his voice concerning this new life he had found in Jesus. As he continued, Vicki and I stopped talking a began to listen. It went on for 20 minutes---no commercials----no music----just this voice in the night sharing his salvation experience. As the time moved to Midnight, the voice quietly faded and said these words...."
"It's now Easter morning.......Jesus has risen!" With that we heard the now familiar strains of Keith Green's Easter Song. The room seemed to be filled with God's presence as we both sat there with tears running down our cheeks. Grateful and thankful for the incredible gift God had brought to our family. Salvation!
It was an Easter that I'll never forget.
Thank you, whoever you were on the air that night at WDJC.
Thank you, Keith for that incredible song.
Thank you , Jesus for the life you've given and sustained all these years in Vicki and me.
God on you.....

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