Today is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! This is a song I remember hearing growing up in the Catholic Christian faith. Especially on Easter Sunday when we celebrate the risen Lord. This same message will echo today in Christian churches and from Christian people all around the world. The impossible became possible. Whether one is Christian or not, we all experience resurrection in our lives if we are open to it. The openness comes in the recognition that death must precede any resurrection. The beauty of the resurrection is not just that some guy rose from the dead but the process that he underwent that brought him to a place of new life. In a nutshell, a simple man born in poor circumstances, living a simple life shares day in and day out from his heart about what love is, forgives, heals, shows people a new way of thinking that extends what some have already known and what is completely new to others. He has a group of followers who are with him and when he questions those in authority who hold tightly to their laws and routines–he makes them uncomfortable. They find a way to technically accuse him of wrong doing and have him arrested. Though he was not guilty of any real crime (though they were able to convince authorities that he was), he was sentenced to suffer and die a brutal and gruesome death. A day or two later he rose from the dead. While it sounds like a nice fairy tale for those whom it has no religious significance, the spiritual significance speaks volumes. How many times in our lives do we put things to death because they challenge us to approach love and life in a new way? How many ideas in our lives do we hold on to because we are used to them and want to push aside anyone who might cause us to question them? How often have we experienced times when we suffered in letting go and in time experienced a transformation of that idea? What about when we look at our lives and realize that some of our “worst” times became our “best” times because they caused us to grow more in love? This is why we celebrate with joy this day and every day that we are given life because we are responding from the same place of our creator. A place of hope, of the possibility of joy and of life anew with each breath. Our Creator rejoices every day that we accept the breath given to us upon awakening. When we live in joy and hope that maybe, just maybe, today will bring a renewal and chance of love, we are in alignment with our Creator and live that which we were created for. My prayer for us today is that we have the audacity to hope in the joy of new life given to use this day with our very breath. Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen
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