Anna M. Aquino

              Have you ever watched a movie or TV show full of suspense and found your entire family yelling at the screen.   Or maybe it was a book; you read it until the wee hours of the morning and wanted to literally hurl the book across the room when you finished it because you hated the ending that much.   Personally as an author I’ve argued with myself about killing various characters off.   I remember in one book knowing this character had to die but sitting at the computer crying as I wrote the scene.   I knew it had to happen for the story line to progress, even if I hated to do it.             Have you ever wondered that perhaps the angels had similar moments when Jesus was brutally nailed to the cross?   How did heaven feel when he died?   Maybe they all watched the scene from afar waiting for that moment where they coul...

I hope you all had an amazing Resurrection Weekend. He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed. On Friday my family and I had the awesome privilege to view the “Savior” an original modern passion musical about Jesus, His life, fulfillment of prophesy, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. It was performed at Calvary Assembly in downtown Orlando. My daughters sat transfixed to the stage. They loved it. My youngest who is 5 kept turning to me with questions, and statements that as an adult I thought were the cutest things in the world. I’ll admit I might be a little bias, but her passion and enthusiasm made me think. When Jesus was being beaten she looked at me with almost tears in her eyes. When the narrator said they spit at him, compassionately she said, “Oh mommy, that’s not nice. If I would have been there I would have given him a hug.” I was grateful that throughout these scenes the action and beating was taking place behind a scrim and only shadows could be seen, so...