Easter Risings

And so not even death itself could foil the triumph of God in Jesus. Though the forces of darkness and evil continue to wreak havoc and dominate the human story, we pin our hopes on one particular empty tomb and the vindication of God's commitment to his children to which it points.
While possibly surpassed by the incarnation as miracles go, it stands alone in history in the force of its implications for human life and hope. Today is the anniversary of when Jesus made the world safe—not from the presence and effects of evil—but from the judgment of God for being those who tolerate and perpetrate evil.
We find ourselves free to do our living out in the light, without shame or fear, in a spacious realm called grace. So we too rise each day and live the gift which are our lives alongside, undergirded and surrounded by the living God.