In recent years Easter has become a bigger and bigger holy-day for me. I'm not the most sentimental person around, but I'm learning to love the celebration of Jesus' death and resurrection more and more. This year, I've not been able to corporately celebrate Easter because our little Mini and I are still recovering and resting at home.
That sadness aside, I find that holding the Mini on Easter morning fills me with hope. During Lent, I fasted from reading the news and focused on reading the Bible. Now that Lent is over, I'm wondering if I want to go back to the news. It tends to be dark and depressing. I get angry, and I feel hopeless against forces that seem so much larger than anything I can handle. Sometimes we joke about what a cruel world we brought our daughter into and how sorry we are that we have done so. But today, when I think about the cross and the redemption that God extends to us through the cross, I am reminded that the Kingdom of God is near, that God is actively at work in the world now, that the good news is not just in the future after we die, but the good news is now. Because of Jesus' resurrection defeats death, our Mini has an open invitation to join in the life of God's kingdom, to participate in God's beautifying of the world, to live fully in a decaying world. So maybe we should stop joking about this little life in this dying world and instead marvel at the grace that triumphs over filthy injustice and dark evil and pray that she would choose life in the kingdom.
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amen to that!