Christ is risen! Christ is risen, indeed! Amen! Alleluia!
Most our lives are lived in between these extremes: fear and joy, despair and hope, doubt and faith, never wholly one or the other, not unchanging. Jesus’s resurrection promise is that joy, hope, and faith will ultimately prevail. In the end, faith, hope and joy – all those things that are of God – will win.
It’s a powerful message for all of us who harbor a host of concerns we rarely utter.
Christ’s resurrection signals above and beyond all else that our God is a God of new life and never-ending possibility. The good news of Christ’s resurrection does not take away our fear – though sometimes we wish desperately that it would. It DOES offer us courage and hope. God will have the last word, and that word is one of light and life and grace and mercy and love and peace.
This fearsome and joyous news that Christ. Is. Risen. Christ STILL has the capacity to create life and faith in us, in and for all of creation. Praise be to God!
