Wednesday's thoughts

"Come and See"
Much of Easter is to be seen or heard. It is a time in which the senses are alive and driven to explore into areas not known.
We bring in the cross and we put flowers on it. We tune up our voices and our choirs and we experience the beauty a time of year that is spring and new birth. It is the way we celebrate resurrection.

Henri Nouwen wrote, "Resurrection is not just life after death. First of all, it is the life that bursts forth in Jesus' passion, in his waiting. The story of Jesus' suffering reveals that the resurrection is breaking through even in the midst of the passion."

I think Easter is a time when we look at the worst life gives us and we face it down and then the best that life offers comes through.

We imagine the disciples experiencing Jesus' death and their own disappointment in their lack of courage. We imagine how they must of felt when they began to see that their worst fear was overcome by the greatest hope. Jesus, death was followed by his resurrection.

I believe that is central to our faith, but I also think it is a mistake to claim more than we should in trying to understand it. The most important part of the Easter story is hope. The most important message of Easter is the way it speaks to every one of us.


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Charles Schuster

Easter worship
6am in the Parlor sermon "It was Early in the Morning"
8, 9:30, 11:00n in Sanctuary "Come and See"