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Welcome Easter Morning! Welcome Easter People!
How exciting that our eyes have been opened to learn that Resurrection is not just a one-time experience in history. It is more than Life-After-Death, for it is also about Life-Before-Death.
Throughout Jesus’ earthly journey he was raising up people no matter one’s color, gender, or creed. Think of the woman at the well - not his ethnicity nor accepted in her community. He raised her up; she began a new life. He gave value to the widow’s tiny mite. He dined with tax collectors, outcasts and attended weddings where the wine ran out. Jesus was always about Resurrection, the raising up, the giving of life.
Friends, we are witnessing the Resurrection spirit among us now. We see this when giving a repaired bicycle to one with no transportation or offering a dining experience to those who are hungry. We are privileged to see the joy in the refugee’s eyes whose children had no clothes leave the Caring Center with a hug and clothing and a fresh pair of shoes. And are not our hearts warmed as the stranger is welcomed in our Gathering Space?
Now important questions do arise as we live in this Resurrection spirit – both globally and within ourselves. We become more conscious of those who hunger both in our world and locally, those suffering from disasters from fire, flood, snow, war and violence to name but a few. All need new life and to be raised up and we ask ourselves how will we respond? At the same time we look inward, becoming more aware of our own behaviors and life patterns that are not life-giving and we seek God’s Grace to bring new life there.
So where does this Resurrection spirit take us this Easter morning and as we look onward to the days ahead? Perhaps it’s the awareness that the work of Easter has just begun… for us to take a new path, one of Journeying with Jesus in Life-Giving Resurrection.
Ev’ry morning is Easter morning from now on!
Ev’ry day’s Resurrection Day, the past is over and gone!
Goodbye guilt, goodbye fear, good riddance
Hello Lord, Hello sun!
I am one of the Easter People!
My new life has begun.
from “Every Morning is Easter Morning” Words by Donald S. Marsh
photo by Glenn Peck
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