Yesterday was Easter! The weather was too cold, too wet, and a little too cloudy. We like to see the sun, be able to be outside, and have at least 70 degree temperatures. But that isn't what we got this year!

As I headed out of the driveway for Sunrise Church Services, there was a beautifully colored rooster pheasant sitting along the side of our country road. He was just there, didn't move much as I drove by. Couldn't help but notice him, not much else bright and beautiful at the early morning hour and with the absence of the sun.

I turned to head west to finish the three miles of gravel road before hitting hard-surfaced road and the final handful of miles into Clarion. And there stood another pheasant; also on the right side of the road. Again in no hurry to fly off in any direction.

And before I got to the blacktop road, there was a third brightly-colored pheasant for me to observe.

Maybe because it was Easter morning, I thought of Jesus' disciple, Peter and roosters and what he promised Jesus in the final days of Jesus' life:

LUKE 22:33 -- Peter said, "Lord, I am ready to go to jail with you, and even to die with you." But Jesus said, "Peter, let me tell you something. Between now and tomorrow morning when the rooster crows, you will deny me three times, declaring that you don't even know me."