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Easter 2010 By the Reverend
Nancy Norman |
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Year after year, we come together with gladdened hearts to celebrate Easter. We rejoice in the risen Christ, sing with joy, and marvel at the glory of nature. The world seems to applaud new life, and nature joins the festivities with vibrant, bright, blooming colors and shapes. I often have wondered what that first Easter was like. Those first Christians were so filled with joy that it was apparent that something miraculous had taken place. Their joy was so intense, they could not contain it; they wanted the world to know what they had experienced. The feeling was contagious and the word spread, “Christ is risen – He lives, He lives.” Yes, something had happened. Their Jesus, who had lived among them, who had given them hope, who had taught and instructed them on how God’s laws could work in their lives – their beloved Jesus who they had seen die on the cross, their Jesus who they saw put into a tomb – their Jesus was alive! The word spread, “The tomb is empty, He has risen.” Like a ripple effect down through the ages, the message of hope and eternal life continues to touch the minds and hearts of those who have ears to hear. The Easter message is the message of the empty tomb. The darkness of the tomb has vanished and there is light. As we celebrate Easter, we see that the Easter story is our story, our victory, our overcoming. It is the story of our awakening, we remember who we are, the verification of our enlightenment. The Easter story tells us that the resurrecting power of God is at work deep within us to sustain us on our journey of abundant life. The stone has been rolled away, the door is open to a more abundant, peaceful life, and nothing is impossible to God. We think that we have to move the stone, and we try to figure out how to fix things, rather than trusting the Power of God to remove all barriers and obstacles from our path. Resurrection says we can overcome any problem or challenge no matter how big or looming it may appear. Our minds, bodies and life can be healed, renewed and resurrected; no barriers can stop the process of greater good. You and I have a divine code within us. The code is Christ and we are continually becoming more aware of our divinity, ever acknowledging that we are beings of light, beauty, love and that we are filled with pure, positive God potential. Life never moves toward death. Life is eternal and always moves toward life. In Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, one of the characters says, “…everybody knows that something is eternal, and it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even stars…Everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal – something that has to do with human beings. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.” That is what the first Christians knew; they ‘got it’– that there is something eternal about human beings. The Resurrecting Power of God is working deep within us showing us the way to an abundant life. The Resurrecting Power of God gently guides us and reveals to us that any and all problems we can think of have already been solved and cleared away. The Resurrecting Power of God goes before us and our health, happiness, prosperity, and success are assured. Life is eternal! The tomb is empty! He is risen!
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