... , she wept because she thought that someone had stolen the body of Jesus. But her tears of sorrow turned into tears of joy as she recognized the risen Savior when he said to her, "Mary." She came to an empty tomb - out of death came the victory of life. Colleen McCullough got the title of her best-selling book, Thorn Birds, from a legend about a bird that sings only once and more sweetly than any other bird on earth. From the time it leaves the nest, it looks for a thorn tree and does not rest until it is ...
... church becomes a forgiving, loving fellowship and then we know the truth: "Lo, I am with you even until the end." That is where the power comes from. It is either that we are the unforgiving and the unforgiven; or that we are the forgiving ones, who are forgiven. 1. Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds, (New York: Harper & Row, 1977) p. 530. 2. Fred Uhlman, Reunion, (New York: Farrar, Straus, Girou, 1971) p. 112.
