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Living the resurrection (21 April)

The thought this week is written by Beth Powney, EBA Regional Minister [Photo by Jessica Ruscello on Unsplash]

A couple of weeks ago we celebrated all that Easter means to us, including Jesus’ resurrection and soon we will celebrate his ascension and then Pentecost.  But for now we remain, according to the church calendar, in Eastertide, so I come to ask the question: are we living the resurrection? 

By this I am asking –

What is God doing deep inside us to continue his resurrection life within us and then towards others we know and love? 

What is God still writing on our hearts?

What is God doing to mend the brokenness with us and that we see all around us? 

I believe all of this and so much more is living the resurrection. That is that each day we are growing and walking in and receiving from again and again the life changing, unlimited power of the resurrection, in order that we are changed from glory into glory.

Ted Loder’s poem, which I share in full below ‘I Praise you for this Resurrection Madness’ is concluded with these words – ‘no dead ends to growing, to choices, to chances, to calls to be just. No dead ends to living, to making peace, to dreaming dreams, to being glad of heart’.  The power and the work of living the resurrection goes on and on and on and on for as long as we will be willing to open up our lives to God and his Spirit for him to do his work in and through us.

I wonder, are we living the madness of the resurrection?

I Praise you for this Resurrection Madness (by Ted Loder)

Lord of such amazing surprises as put a catch in my breath
and wings on my heart.
I praise you for this joy, too great for words,
but not for tears and songs and sharing, for mercy
that blots out my betrayals and bids me begin again,
and to limp on, to hop-skip-and-jump on.

To mend what is broken in and around me
and to forgive the breakers; for this YES
to life and laughter, to love and lovers,
and to my unwinding self; for this Kingdom
unleashed in me and I in it forever.

And no dead ends to growing, to choices, to chances,
to calls to be just.
No dead ends to living, to making peace, to dreaming dreams,
to being glad of heart.
For this resurrection madness which is wiser than I
and in which I see how great you are, how full of grace,
Alleluia!