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Hello, everyone. I’m Dottie Escobedo Frank, Bishop of the California-Pacific Conference. It’s good to be with you today. I wanted to come and give you a special Easter blessing. The thing I love about Easter is that it comes through a hard experience of Lent, and the experience of Jesus facing the difficult times of his life, and actually facing them unto death. It reminds me that when we go through life and things are hard, that we have hope into the future. And also, it reminds us that if Jesus even faced death and said death was not going to keep him down, that we too can go through our struggles of life and know that God is with us, and that there are resurrection moments in our lives, too.

So, as you come into this Easter moment, I pray that you feel the joy. I pray that you feel the courage rising up. And the strength to know that we know the end of the story. And it involves a resurrection moment in our history, but also resurrections that happen in our everyday lives. I’m praying for you. I’m with you. I love you. I pray that God continues to be very near to you during this season of resurrection.