Sunday, March 27, 2005
What does easter mean to you?
Unless We Too Have Risen : C. F. Blumhardt "So many people claim to believe in the Resurrection, and yet it means so little to them. It has no effect in their lives. It is not enough to celebrate Easter and say, that Christ is risen! Indeed, it is useless to proclaim it at all, unless at the same time we can say that we too have risen. The long passage of time has brought with it a temptation to keep on speaking about Good Friday without being moved by it. We hear about Christ's death, and we sit there bored, as if we were reading a newspaper. In fact, we would find a newspaper a good deal more interesting."
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It seems most of the time that actions, praxis, struggle, et al toward the life of Christ, in the real, grimy space of being, is repulsive to most American "Christians." In fact antithetical to their unbiblical world view.
Easter is pretty and celebrative to them... not realising that it is the beginning of Jesus handing us the torch of struggle. As the "churches" are full on Easter Sunday (of course white with white, black with black, asian with asian, latino with latino)there is a world outside those doors whose grave is still full of death, oppression, exploitation, and pain. The time for the "church" to truly celebrate is when they ressurect out of their materialistic, greedy dilerium and begin to actually live like Christ - The Liberator of the Oppressed... Not reinforcers, financers, and ideologues of the ones oppressing.
Then again maybe they should stick to the colored eggs.
kim I agree, I worked that sunday and to me was just another day. acctually i found my focus on keeping up on fuel moister samples more important than anything esle.
. . . i'm glad He died in my place, theres no way I could have substituted . . .
m,
Thank you so much for your input on this matter.
I greatly appreciate it and concurr with you. Though my focus was on how much did my dad put in those darn hidden eggs, that my nieces and nephews get to find. He said a dime was worth 10 buckaroos!
This has been a tradition since the kids were quite young. And like much of the larger population, easter is yet another holiday of food and family. jesus? who was he?
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