Dear Friends,
Jesus is risen and walks among us – in the beautiful, fragrant gardens we experience, in the hovels and places made ugly by misuse. Christ is risen and He is here. So now what?
Now is the time to let Jesus Easter in us. We are at a place of choice: will we go on to a new springtime of life with God and one another or will we go back through the tomb into our old ways? Easter calls us to places we have not been.
If we do choose to go forward to meet Christ at the seashore or behind locked doors or on the road to our personal Emmaus, as His disciples did, what will be our pace? Will pace be hurried or harried, languid, decisive, measured, determined, effortless, exhausting, unsure, cautious? Will we choose to go on with Christ deliberately or will we just let life happen? Who will walk with us? People we choose or people who are given to us? Will we recognize the Risen One in them, their words, their gestures?
Will our hearts burn within us as He speaks to us on the way, as we do necessary things, cross boundaries, head down unmarked trails, come to a crossroad? In going forward mindfully, we move with others unerringly into the heart of God.
With or without noticing Christ with us, we are on the move. With Him, we are enfolded in love and enlivened toward goodness, mercy, hopefulness.
This is the drama of grace.
~Sister Joan Sobala
