Your Easter
Blessing
May your heart lift with love's warmth,
the strength found in prayer, the truth of new life.
May spring bring to mind God's great desire for your
renewal and growth.
May you rest in the grace of care and
compassion that last beyond time.
May Christ's life, the energy of God, wrap you in Easter
blessing.
The greatest symbol of hope in Christendom is resurrection, God's power to raise anything and anyone from the depths.
Jesus rose from death before anyone else knew of it. He rose alone, long before dawn, on the first day of the week after Passover in 30 a.d. It was a new day, a new week, a new creation.
Jesus is Here, Resurrecting Broken Hearts
How can that desire, that longing be met? How can the desire to be resurrected—to be delivered from hardness of heart—be fulfilled short of joining a monastery?
When I think about the resurrection now, I don't only think about what happened to Jesus. I think about what happened to his disciples.
Maybe for some, there's the glorious knock-you-off-your-donkey experience, but that's never been my way; always for me, it's not the rainbow but the groundwater quietly seeping up from sources I can't begin to imagine.
Taking time to reflect in your journal about your feelings during the Easter season will help you keep alert to the signs of resurrection and wholeness outside and within.
But the Easter story is not only an experience, an event. It is a way of life. The resurrection of Jesus created the hope in Christians that death is never the end—resurrection is.
The greatest symbol of hope in Christendom is resurrection, God's power to raise anything and anyone from the depths.
Jesus rose from death before anyone else knew of it. He rose alone, long before dawn, on the first day of the week after Passover in 30 a.d. It was a new day, a new week, a new creation.
The Deepest Mystery, the Highest Hope
How can that desire, that longing be met? How can the desire to be resurrected—to be delivered from hardness of heart—be fulfilled short of joining a monastery?
When I think about the resurrection now, I don't only think about what happened to Jesus. I think about what happened to his disciples.
Maybe for some, there's the glorious knock-you-off-your-donkey experience, but that's never been my way; always for me, it's not the rainbow but the groundwater quietly seeping up from sources I can't begin to imagine.
Finding New Life in a Celtic Easter
Taking time to reflect in your journal about your feelings during the Easter season will help you keep alert to the signs of resurrection and wholeness outside and within.
But the Easter story is not only an experience, an event. It is a way of life. The resurrection of Jesus created the hope in Christians that death is never the end—resurrection is.
