Dear Friends,
On Good Friday,
Jesus was condemned to death,
His life was violently taken from Him.
Then Jesus’ body was laid in a tomb.
Protected by a stone.
But not forever.
Jesus, whose life had been violently taken from Him,
was remarkably, truly alive.
Our minds cannot grasp
the extent of God’s faithful love
in raising Jesus from the dead.
Dumbstruck, we leave it
to our hearts to embrace
the Risen One this day.
There is no neat formula to know
when or how we can expect to experience the Risen Lord
in our time.
All there is
is the quickening of our hearts
and the witness of others.
The pull of it.
The good news of Easter Sunday is that
God has interrupted and continues to interrupt our
sometimes boring,
sometimes difficult lives
with compassion and
unending love.
God interrupts power that seeks to destroy
and the forces of evil that seek to
overcome our world.
Easter shows us that
death is not eternal.
Life is.
In You, O Risen One, we find life.
In the mystery of our personal depths,
when we choose life.
Christ’s life surrounds us,
embraces us,
upholds what is most treasured in us.
Our lives made holy and whole because
He lives.
Alleluia!
~ Sister Joan Sobala
