April 16, 2025

What does resurrection mean to you? Anne Lamott writes, “I’m a sucker for a good resurrection story.” And so am I! In this season of resurrection, I thought I’d share a few thoughts on the subject by those who, with Paul, “die every day” only to be resurrected to new life:

The pastor, philosopher, and civil rights leader Howard Thurman writes, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

The Indiana author Scott Russell Sanders writes, “Resurrection points to the power of renewal in things, the way the show keeps going on, even while countless actors shuffle on and off the stage…”

In a poem titled I Do Not Accept, the Polish poet Anna Swir writes, “But I am not going to repeat / their dead words. / I have to give myself / a new birth. I have to / give birth to a new time.”

God, through the prophet Ezekiel, says, “Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.” (Ezekiel 37:12)

Welcome to the promised Easter Land!

Blessings and grace!

Rev. Eric