Too Long

I do apologize for how long it has been since I last posted. I know some of you look for updates and I have been tardy! But then again it's Easter! I give Easter here in Mid-Mo two thumbs up. Great worship, great crowds, and a great message to proclaim. He lives! not just in our hearts, but HE LIVES...it wasn't until some part of seminary education that I realized there is a difference. I am completely comfortable and able to say that Jesus lives in my heart and in yours. But it is a different animal to proclaim - Jesus lives! It is part of our proclamation of our faith. In the Apostles Creed was say "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting." Not just a spiritual resurrection, which is what we proclaim when we say he lives in my heart...but the bodily resurrection...Jesus' body was alive again.

That body must have been different because no one recognizes him when they first see him, but none the less it must have been a human body because scripture doesn't describe it as a ghostly presence...so how does that tickle your faith? Did you know that is what we proclaim at Easter? And when we proclaim He lives - what a powerful God we proclaim...death was overcome not in some spiritual "I'll be OK" sense - but death was overcome with life. It is that proclamation that changes the world because it offers hope...that even in the darkest of days, God's love overcame the darkness to restore the light of love in the world.

God continues to be at work...not in perscribed and expected ways, but in the very unexpected and unexplained ways that make life complicated as well as wonderous.
Happy Easter and I'll try to get back on track!