It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Easter

Over the last few weeks the weather has been warm and the snow is gone, but the earth still seems to be barren. I looked out and saw the brown grass and leafless trees and something was still missing. We celebrated Good Friday with eight other congregations last week and as I was on my way to the service I noticed how colorless things seemed to be. In the middle of the worship as we spoke of Jesus' death on the cross a crack of thunder interrupted the meditation followed by torrential rain. In less than two hours as I left the church the world had changed. The grass which lay dormant now sprang up with the deep green of Spring and in just a few hours more the trees had begun to bud.

Tomorrow we celebrate Easter and the same change that happens to the earth in Spring happens to us in the resurrection. We often live in the dormancy of the world as we try to manage all that life throws at us. We may even feel that nothing can get us out of the funk that seems to embrace us each and every day. But than something happens; new life comes, hope returns, and we are fed and nourished by the Grace of God as we are embraced by the death and resurrection of a God who loves us so much that no winter or struggles we may face will keep us from becoming who God has created us to be. We are here to grow and thrive and the promise of Easter is that God will give us the life giving gift we need to care for His creation.

Open up and embrace the life giving Grace of God this Easter and grow into the creation God has placed you in.