GREETINGS TO THE LIGHT SHINING PEOPLE OF CHRIST THE KING,
These 50 Days of Easter we get to explore and be surprised with the hidden and the unseen blooming forth and the beauty of new growth that pops into view and then gets blown furiously about by the winds all around.
The 50 days of this season give us the opportunity to live in the dawning of something new and all that means for us. It is a time of awakening, recognizing and naming what is already present but has been unseen. The light of Easter seasons needs to remember and honor the work that has happened in the darkness of Lent, bringing together the various experiences. The buried alleluias, the extra worship and offering opportunities, the giving up or taking on of a spiritual discipline. All to awaken us to this time.
We, like Moses, pay attention to the task before us and have seen the burning bush not consumed. We have seen the empty tomb and recognize that God is up to something. So we are on the lookout, called to become what we have received; the body of Christ, broken, poured out for the sake of the world God created and loves deeply.
We are the ones who have the honor and responsibility, the duty and delight, of being the body of Christ that takes shape, the shape of the cross and resurrection with the Holy Spirit propelling us to do God’s Work with our hands. Watch in this Easter season for the Holy Spirit to emerge, bringing power to transform our lives while God’s kingdom takes root and grows.
Pay attention to how Peter and the early church of Acts grow as they wrestle with Jesus’ death and resurrection and Peter’s letter that encourages them to look for God in the midst of their suffering in their small communities of faith in Turkey.
Light helps us to see more than we can with our own eyes. We look closely at the empty tomb, we look closely at what those first witnesses did as they tried to see more and make sense of the empty tomb and Jesus’ appearances. And then we look around for what God is up to now and how God is appearing to us today and we help each other to see more than we can see on our own because we are the light shining people of God.
Bold Inquisitive Belief Loving Expansively,
Pastor Connie Spitzack
