My husband Norm and I host a lighthearted daily cable television program titled “Delta Dawn.” As the celebration of Easter Sunday draws near, I anticipate Son-rise service with our Bethlehem Baptist church family. Members will gather for a Delta Dawn!

We live in the agriculturally fertile lands of the Louisiana Delta and the term Delta tags everything from a geographic area to newspapers. I am in awe of God’s victorious triumph over death this morning as I ponder our coming Easter’s Delta Dawn…

“But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb (Luke 24:1-2 NAS).” They had a dawn encounter with God! “He is not here, but He has risen (Luke 24:6a).”