Easter Sunday Newsletter: Fresh Act

Act 1

On Good Friday Jesus dies. If we leave his burial with the body enclosed in a tomb it is like quitting a theatre production at intermission – we exit half way through the story. We never know the ending. Cloaked with the sadness and despair of a tragic death our premature departure returns us to everyday life with a lump in our throat.

But that was Act 1. If we care to stay by the tomb there is more to follow.

Act 2

In Act 1, in the Good Friday newsletter published three days ago, the suggestion is that Jesus’ crucifixion on a cross serves as both an altar and a bridge – a purification altar where love consumes and burns up all evil and separation from God; a bridge with the capacity to hold and transform such burdens, then opens a pathway back to God’s heart.

Act 3

If we choose not to leave early, in Act 2 we experience Easter Sunday when Jesus comes alive from being dead. In being raised from destruction he shows us we, too, can come alive to a new life with God. And this is the third Act; not one we find recorded in any Bible because it is our story, our journey. We take our cue and move across the bridge travelling with no baggage. Unlike a trip where an air line looses our bags we want the luggage left behind this time because it is a new curtain call with a fresh start.

Fresh

Can you breathe now?

The pain is gone

From a life undone

To a new day sprung

Are you free now?

With evil in prison

Sin forgiven

Jesus arisen

Do you believe now?

Fresh heart in place

Loves freeing grace

God’s forever embrace

It gets all summed in this next act but only click on the link if you are feeling strong otherwise you risk being swept away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULLKS9jyV0

I wish you and your loved ones, dear Reader, an Easter that bridges all separations. Please join me in the walk along the pathway that leads to love, joy and peace.

Carolin M. Paradis – An Everyday Storyteller