In the midst of the darkness and traumatic moments of our lives and world, the Easter dawn breaks holding the possibility of new life. The stone is moved, Jesus is risen. His crucified body shines with resurrected light, casting a radiant brightness over the shadows of our lives and world. Suffering is transformed into new life, good triumphs over evil and everything that is broken and dead is renewed. Death becomes the gateway to new life. The Cross and glory are forever intertwined. The light of the resurrected body of Jesus changes forever our vision of death. We are destined to live and have eternal life.
The Resurrection of Jesus promised at His birth sets us free forever. Daniel O’ Leary reassures us that we have God’s creative power at our core; he says: “Believing in this incredible power within us nothing is impossible anymore. It enables us to live with courage, knowing that no matter what happens to us or around us, we are under the protection of God and we can do all things in God who strengthens us.”
We are miracles of Easter when we discover the meaning of life in the ordinary “bits and pieces” of our daily life, when we have a positive attitude to life, when we make our journey of life a journey of wonder and thanksgiving, when we remove the limits we put around ourselves and others by daring to believe.
We all need moments of resurrection in our lives, moments when God’s glory and power are revealed to us in our daily routines and through the lover and care of others. These potential moments of new life have the potential to carry us through difficult times.
This Easter, we are called once again to believe in the incredible power of the divine light which enfolds us and floods our being. May we mirror that brightness to all we meet.
And so, in the words of Macrina Wiederkehr we pray:
Open the windows of our soul. Open the walls of our minds. Open the doors of our hearts, awaken us to hope, awaken us to joy. Fill us to the brim with new light.
B. O’S.