Theologian Matthew Fox explores how we can choose to live resurrection each day:
Who does not seek Resurrection? Who does not seek a full and fuller life? Did Jesus not promise, “I have come that you may have life, life in abundance?”
How am I Resurrection for others?
How am I Life for others?
To be Resurrection for another, I need to be Resurrection for myself. That means that I cannot dwell in darkness and death and anger and oppression and submission and resentment and pain forever. I need to wake up, get up rise up, put on life even when days are dark and my soul is down and shadows surround me everywhere…I have to listen to the voice that says: “Be resurrection.”
“Break out of your tombs; do not settle for death. Break out, stand up, give birth. Get out of easy pessimism and lazy cynicism. Put your heart and mind and hands to creating hope and light and resurrection. Be born again. And again. And again…”
Resurrection is a commitment to hope and being reborn. It is a commitment to creativity, to the Spirit who “makes all things new” (Revelation 21:5) Resurrection is the Spirit’s work. It is the life of the Spirit.
And what about Life? How am I Life? How living and alive am I? How much in love with life am I? Can anyone or any event separate me from my love of life? Paul the mystic asks (and then answers) “Who shall separate us from the love of God? Neither death nor life, height nor depth, neither present nor future.” (Romans 8: 35 – 38). Is my curiosity alive? My gratitude, my mind? My imagination? My laughter and sense of humour? My creativity? My powers of generosity and compassion? My powers for continually generating and regenerating life?
Yes, I am, yes, we are the Resurrection and the Life. We bring aliveness and rebirth and plenty of hope into the world, however troubling the news becomes. That is what it means to believe in Easter Sunday and the Resurrection. We become the Resurrection and the Life. Christ rises anew.
BO’S