Most people have doubts about the Easter events at the core of Christian belief. From early childhood to our senior years, everyone asks, Did It really happen? The story seems nonsensical.
Our questions and sceipticism are the same as on that first morning. No one believed the women’s initial accounts of an emply tomb or of some brief, unusual experiences shared.
But then life intervenes for us. Real joys, sorrows, tragedies all mingled with deep love by those around us. Somehow this example of divine goodness in human life comes into our view.
And when we are scared, uncertain or even comfortable sitting on the sidelines of life, we summon the courage to assert hope in a belief that our future can be better than what we face now.
Here is an example from yesterday of this miracle in one of the most difficult circumstance of life. The news story captures this fundamental human hope, grounded in a love, that never dies. And the desperattion of those still waiting for their miracle.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFff3ADgCKI)
The Mystery of Faith
If a more ordered explanation of why so many have this Easter hope, here is a plain spoken talk on this continually evolving journey of belief.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCq6bgGVgcY)
Happy Easter Monday. Know there is more to come. As we see hope in others, it will rekindle our own faith that life’s possibilities are more than what we see today.
If you need another living example of this faith, here is one leader’s belief in the future: Evil has its hour, but God has His Day.
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu9Nqn8HQy0)