you only live twice

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In a world of enduring winter </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>you only live twice</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a hope-filled signpost for spring's birth-a collection of forty-eight Easter-Advent poems. They are calls to courage in the lingering cold knowing in hope like the early-blooming crocus that spring came before and it will come again. This anthology declares the truth that two millennia ago a Man died on a mission of grace for the sinner then rose again on Easter; thus Jesus lived twice. On a future day when He returns as the resurrection and the life so shall His children live again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>They're poems of winter and spring of hope and courage of a Kingdom to come that's certain and bright.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>For the soul banking its future on that Messiah King these are a poetic invitation to embrace the truth of Easter-that there is a forever life of far more value than these current uncertain days. In Jesus we'll get to live it.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>For the follower of Jesus Good Friday yielded Easter. Winter always yields spring. And death will yield life. So like the deep-red growth of spring roses on brittle dead branches dare to believe your resurrected King.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Because of Jesus' victory on Easter one can live twice.</span></p>