The big story of this day is Jesus’ Resurrection from death. It will be celebrated in homes and churches throughout the world. But I think Jesus is more interested in us than us celebrating him. He wants us to recognize and celebrate the way we rise from our darkness, and digressions failures, weakness, sadness and depression.
When Jesus was on Earth he was honest. He was himself. That’s what got him in trouble. He teaches me to subdue the anger and every hint of violence inside to be true to the unique creature his Father has crafted not special or above the rest of ordinary men just different and true to my own voice.
Unlike Jesus, I am not that courageous and mighty with the power of love. I still fantasize doing damage to those whom I deem evil still I care too much about what others think about how I look or sound in public.
I am unlike Jesus in too many ways, but I am like him in my rising from darkness and doom from my own self-made tomb. My resurrections might be tiny but large is the Spirit in me and the ability to see the light to see the right and pursue it wherever it leads into meadows and into the weeds away from tradition and my roots beyond my past moorings toward truth and its small soarings telling my little stories from death to glory.