Normally, most mornings I try very hard to be alive before I turn cyber. That can be hard to do since my computer sits right next to my bed. On Sundays I also try very hard to take a "digital sabbath" and stay away from the computer altogether.
But this morning my brain was cracking alive and jumping like popcorn and I got up early to think through the ideas skipping around in my head and I happened to pause at the computer, where I found this daily story from the story people. I had to get on and post it. What better story than this for Easter?
It seems to me that this is exactly the experience that most people have of God; it is often the experience that I have of God. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just pin that amazing formless energy down to something specific? Wouldn't it be great if we could harness it for ourselves: for our own agendas, our own prejudices, our petty arguments and horrific wars?
Yeah... it would be great! And it would be dead.
Instead God comes to us on a crisp spring morning and says... "Hey... how about we change it up?"
That's the message of Easter to me. Jesus refuses to simply lie down and be predictable... and dead.
As far as I can tell, he expects the same thing of all of us; he expects the same thing of me.
Happy Easter!
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