April 1, 2018 Chapter 33 The Uprising Begins (Easter Sunday)
Easter Sunday in April Fool's Day this year. It seems kind of funny doesn't it? It also seems pretty appropriate.
If you are regular in any of the parishes I have ever served you will know that the Easter Season is also Holy Humor Season. People will sometimes ask me why I do this and the answer is pretty easy. Easter is the day God laughed at death. Easter is the day God laughed at fear. Easter is the day that God laughed at destruction and pain and hurt. And yes, Easter is the feast that God played the ultimate April Fool's joke on the world. Death is not the end! Death has no power! And if death is no longer powerful over us, then really we have nothing to fear!
God's blessing on you and your family this Easter. Alleluia!
This time, I paid attention to how, like on the road to Emmaus, I get so entrenched in the details of life that I forget to listen to the one voice that truly matters.
ReplyDeleteIt's a learning journey for sure. It is also good to remember that death has no power over us even though the world seems to think it does.