Easter! Creation to Salvation in 100 Words a Day

By Sheila Deeth

Putting the Bible back into Easter...

Read the whole story in 100 words a day. A page-a-day calendar with simple text and illustrations for Lent, starting with creation on Ash Wednesday and ending with the promise of Salvation on Easter Sunday...

because Easter doesn't begin or end with rabbits and baskets and eggs.

A What IF...S Inspired by Faith and Science book,
because the answers can't breathe if we don't ask
questions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sheila Deeth
• Release date: Jul 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476249759

Sheila Deeth

More books by Sheila Deeth at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/sheiladeeth5minutes Calling herself a Mongrel Christian Mathematician, Sheila Deeth combines a love of logic, pattern and symbolism with a deep respect for the Bible, history and science. She obtained her bachelors and masters degrees in mathematics from Cambridge University, England, has lived in England and the United States, and has ties to many different Christian denominations.

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What others are saying about Christmas

...lovingly illustrated and told in a style that all can understand...the perfect accompaniment for Sunday school lessons and for youth seeking answers in the Bible’s teachings. (Ann B. Keller, Author of BRIGGEN, The Devil's Crescent and Crenellations)

It starts with how the planets and the earth came to be and the questions of a child as to why the fruit of a tree was forbidden...a calendar of 31 days of events that helped create our world... (Fran Lewis, author of the Bertha Series of books)

EASTER!

Creation to Salvation in 100 words a day

Sheila Deeth

Copyright 2008 Sheila Deeth

Published by Sheila Deeth at Smashwords

Extracts from the Authorized Version of the Bible (The King James Bible), the rights in which are vested in the Crown, are reproduced by permission of the Crown's Patentee, Cambridge University Press.

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First print edition 2008 on Lulu

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DEDICATION

With thanks to my Mum, my family and my friends.

I couldn’t have done this without you.

And with prayers and praise to God.

CONTENTS

1 Ash Wednesday

2 Thursday

3 Friday

4. Saturday

5. Sunday

6. Monday

7. Tuesday

8. Wednesday

9. Thursday

10. Friday

11. Saturday

12. Sunday

13. Monday

14. Tuesday

15. Wednesday

16. Thursday

17. Friday

18. Saturday

19. Sunday

20. Monday

21. Tuesday

22. Wednesday

23. Thursday

24. Friday

25. Saturday

26. Sunday

27. Monday

28. Tuesday

29. Wednesday

30. Thursday

31. Friday

32. Saturday

33. Sunday

34. Monday

35. Tuesday

36. Wednesday

37. Thursday

38. Friday

39. Saturday

40. Palm Sunday

41. Monday

42. Tuesday

43. Wednesday

44. Maundy Thursday

45. Good Friday

46. Holy Saturday

47. Easter Sunday

1 Ash Wednesday

Dying stars threw off their dust and suns and planets were formed. On earth, volcanic clouds washed into seas. Green shoots sprang up and sunlight filtered down. Then sandy ocean depths bred teeming fish; bright birds plucked seeds from the skies.

In the garden, animals ate the fruits of dust-made soil, till it all went wrong.

Where did you come from Daddy? asked the boy.

God made me, from dust.

Mommy too?

They strode the hot desert sand together. I was born from man’s flesh and the breath of God.

Then I’m made of stardust and God-dust, said the boy.

Ecclesiastes 3:20 …all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent in many Christian traditions. The priest forms a cross with ashes on our foreheads, reminding us … that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return. And the scientists tell us it’s true—our every atom