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Hallelujah, Christ is Risen!
"So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it!...Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life-even though invisible to spectators-is with Christ in God." (Colossians 3:1-2, The Message)
What does it mean to act like we're living this new resurrection life with Christ?
On Good Friday, the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas celebrated the lives of a 69-year-old grandfather and his 14-year-old grandson who were senselessly murdered in what has been deemed a hate crime.
Yet within a day, the Corporon family declared that "our family has a deep faith, and we don't believe this tragedy was God's will, but we do believe that Reat (the grandson) and Bill (the grandfather) are safe in God's arms. Even in the midst of our grief, we believe that evil will not have the final word and good will come from this tragedy."
When we "see" people like the Corporon family acting and living in the faith of the resurrection, it confirms our faith that we may grieve but not as a people without hope. Neither death nor evil has the last word because the "first word" is: He is risen!
May this Easter be a time of living the resurrection no matter what the circumstances of your life may be!
He is risen! He is risen indeed in your life today!
~Bishop Sally Dyck
He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.
Matthew 28:6
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