Today is glorious because we’ve seen the darkness of Good Friday. Today is glorious because it speaks of hope and new things. Today is glorious because our Lord has risen!
There is a lot to be said about Easter, the day we commemorate Jesus rising from the dead. Alleluia! But since today marks the beginning of an entire season in the church, I will save that for a later post. For now, Happy Easter!
“Easter is about the wild delight of God’s creative power . . . we ought to shout Alleluias instead of murmuring them; we should light every candle in the building instead of only some; we should give every man, woman, child, cat, dog, and mouse in the place a candle to hold; we should have a real bonfire; we should splash water about as we renew our baptismal vows. Every step back from that is a step toward an ethereal or esoteric Easter experience, and the thing about Easter is that it is neither ethereal or esoteric. It’s about the real Jesus coming out of the real tomb and getting God’s real new creation under way.”
~ N.T. Wright