Dear Saints,

A message for the Easter Season.

Yes! A message of hope and celebration. Move forward is our motto!

I can write, “People of God, we are super disoriented in the world at this time. Nothing makes sense. Up is down, and down is up. However, we are people of hope. We believe in God and that God loves us so much that God sent God’s Son into the world to save us from sin and death. Jesus Christ died for us and took the sins of the whole world on Himself. He died, but on the third day He rose again. Now we who believe in Him have victory over death.” We can then all respond, “Yes, He is risen indeed. Alleluia!!!”

… or I can write …

Disappointment and despair at the realisation that the One we have hoped for and believed in is not able to, or does not want to, respond to our expectation of life and freedom for us and the whole human race drive us all into a deep cycle of lostness. We are disoriented, a disorientation too powerful to be put into words. It creates a silence so loud that nothing is heard anymore amid the chaos of our existence. A chaos that only seems to deepen, there is no solid ground under us.

From this chaotic intense loud silence where nothing makes sense because our hope has been destroyed, we become aware of a sound so distant yet so near, that it can disrupt this loud chaotic silence; he is risen … and again … he is not dead, … the One you hoped for … He is risen … and again we somehow hear, … again and again … He is risen. What does this hearing mean in the chaos we find ourselves in?
The Church and maybe you and I, like the women or even through the women at the tomb who receive word that He is risen, begin to claim, proclaim and move in the realm of the One who is risen. A realm that exposes death in all its manifestations. A realm that interrupts the fruit of death.

In this Easter tide, let our lives be the instruments of that realm that cancels the sting of death. We need to move forward. And we can move forward, because He is risen indeed. Alleluia!!!

May the peace of the Lord be with you.

Yours in Christ as always,

Jacque