All good things come to an end, except...

There are exceptions to every rule as the saying goes. An easy one is "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'." Or what about the letter 'y'? Sometimes it's a vowel and other times it's a consonant. It all depends.

It is for certain, all things (even good ones, and thankfully bad things) come to an end. The rule is part of life that there are endings to every beginning; except one. There is one rule in life that has an exception, death. Everything dies. It's an unfortunate fact of life. We come to an end. However, because of the resurrection of Jesus, we can be the exception to the rule.

Jesus died and everyone thought, "That's that...he's dead forever." Wrong. Exception of all exceptions, Jesus rose from the dead in three days. "Holy exception Batman!" Because he lives, we live also. Even the rule of death has an exception.

The Christian message is simple. We make it way to complicated. Bottom line, Christianity is about Jesus dying and rising to new life, and the gift given to us. We need to keep it simple and remember we're here because of an exception to a rule.