Risen Reflections

Do not get me wrong, I love Christmas. I mean, love it.... just as much, if not increasingly, since I was a very small child, when I was just learning what all of this yuletide business was really about. Easter, though, holds a very like candle in my heart- especially because it is easier, although not impossible, to escape all of the commercial madness surrounding it. In other words, the essence is easier to obtain...The essence of Easter is completely unbelievable, and it is the incredible nature in this act which our faith is based and concreted.

It can be difficult not to feel overburdened with guilt, sorrow and even anxiety at the thought of another man sacrificing his life for us, not to mention our own God, embodied wholly on this Earth. Indeed, there should be a sense of heaviness to this act, as we must understand the serious nature in which these decisions were made by our loving Lord--- but, Easter is celebration. Easter is the promise, the whisper in the words of God that had been spoken and prophesied for centuries... that the savior was coming, and that nothing would be able to stop his triumphant reign, not even death. It is this act, the crucifixion and resurrection that swept the world, and changed the course of history completely. Can you imagine a world where the image of Christ does not exist? How many elements of history would be different- would the United States have even been founded? How would our morals be shaped- would we still sacrifice animals, would ritual still be a key in to heaven for us? There are so many things in the history of our world in which this day, this Easter, was the necessary catalyst.

Has it been the catalyst in you?

Has the knowledge of our God, murdered and then alive, changed you, internally, in the way that it changed the very course of history? That is the savory meat of this day. Transformation. Love. Complete truth. Light. Do what you can, every single day, to be those things for someone else- let God shine through you. And let God shine ON you!