A Light In The Dark: The Easter weekend in your world

Author and professor Rob Bell said: "Some of the most comforting words in the universe are "me too". Story of an actor was an inspiration to countless people, because life echoed those words.

For many years, Michael Landon was loved for his roles as the ideal television father of the figure shows like Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven. At the time few people knew that their experience had been full of pain and despair.

Growing your parents fought on a regular basis. Her mother had threatened suicide repeatedly, and often resort to their anger by beating Michael. An awkward teenager, had few friends in most of his young life. A day in the kind of education During physical in its second year everything changed. Students learn to throw a javelin. Picking up the spear for the first time, IT Landon threw 30 feet, breaking the record school. He found his vocation. He gave his life to practice quietly mastering the sport. He wanted to continue to receive a scholarship for his athletic qualities.

Unfortunately, once at his new school his return same insecurities as the aggressors. Poking fun at his long hair, a student athlete for several days are captured and shaved. Humiliated and defeated, Michael was unable to throw the javelin longer. He left college one year, give up their dreams and people.

Accepting a job in a factory, moved to a peaceful life, where he hoped to leave people alone. One day an agent casting saw him and thought it would be the ideal actor for a role in an upcoming series called Bonanza.

Once his career took off, Landon became determined to show love to all the world who could commit to not hurt people in the way he had been wounded. His determination to generations people who believed in the actor somehow the soul and soft.

Ultimately, the greatest difficulty has been its greatest attraction. Story of Michael Landon is a test the possibility that even in the darkest of all may be amended once the light of love breaks.

And then there is Easter, when darkness covered the earth on a Friday afternoon centuries ago when it seemed the end was really a new beginning. Before that fateful moment, Jesus told his disciples: "I I came into the world as a light, so that nobody believes in me should not abide in darkness "(John 12:46).

It is possible that this Easter is a time of renewal, where its biggest challenges become your best call, and your greatest fears become your greatest strengths. And you find that May with his life, Jesus gave an image to bring light into the darkness to enter humanity to deal with injuries and pain and the vicissitudes and joys and disappointments of life day day and say, "Me too."

About the Author

A former pastor, Tobin holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in theology. Having traveled widely in the Marine Corps and as a graduate student, Tobin has spent the past 15 years gathering some of the world’s most powerful life-changing truths. He’s the author of \’The Life That Is Really Life: How Biblical Truth Can Transform Your Spiritual, Emotional, Physical and Relational Health\’ available at his website twominutesermon.com

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