God came, God sent a part of God's self to incarnate to live among us, that part of God that we know as Jesus. God whose love is so wide for us, so all-encompassing, so relentless, that when God got to the point where God thought, I cannot figure out how to stay in relationship with my creation, God found one more way and that way was one of the two events that makes us who we are as people of God. Even the parts of it we may not know how to understand fully – we claim the resurrection, we claim the love that made resurrection happen, we claim the sadness, the sorrow in resurrection, we claim the mystery of resurrection, the power of resurrection, the transformation of resurrection, we claim Easter, because we claim God, and who we are as God's beloved people.
We need this resurrection, that's what makes Easter so important – the resurrection – and we claim that resurrection.
It helps us to know more about God's love and who God is in that love, and because we're anchored in God's love we know more about ourselves. There's some things that we've been learning we might want to hold on to.īut most of all I thought, no, we can't put off Easter until another time because we need Easter right now. How will we ever go exactly back to where we were, and, do we actually want to go back to that normal. Someone said to me recently, "Could we just put off Easter? Could we move it to later when everything is back to normal." And I thought, the first thing I thought was, back to normal, I wonder what that's going to look like. And it says, "hope is a song in a weary throat." "Hope is a song in a weary throat." And that seems to describe so well, what this time is like, what this Easter is like, what Lent has been like. The poem is "Devastation" and in it, Verse 8, it's in sections, in eight sections, and the section called Verse 8 has this phrase right in the middle as she talks about hope. Thinking about Easter this week, I ran across these words from a poem that Pauli Murray wrote. As the earthquake that is the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts our lives, Bishop Hughes asks us to think about where are WE running into Jesus? (Time: 18:39.) Video Transcript At the first Easter, the women who found the tomb empty felt an earthquake, were told by an angel to go tell the disciples, and in going they ran into Jesus.
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