CELERY
When my younger son, Ian, was about 7, I remember him coming home from school one day, sharing an interesting conversation with his classmate who wore a Buddha necklace. He said they exchanged briefly about their beliefs about Buddha and Jesus. But Ian proudly told me that he told his classmate, “but mine rose from the dead.” My son got it right. For it is in the risen Jesus that I have come to appreciate my FAITH as a Christian.
This is where Jesus has personally touched me and where I have been found and lifted beyond my transitory world. It has brought me HOPE under trying circumstances and events in my life because he has always shown me the bigger picture in his divine perspective. His perfect LOVE frees, heals, and emboldens me – to give and love others – imperfect as I am and in my ways.
I aspire for the kind of faith that equips me for this resurrected life. This can come only from an “UNDIVIDED HEART” as exemplified by Jesus’ own mother, Mary, and the many Bible heroes and saints that lived and died for their faith. They were totally dedicated and willing to pursue a sacred path still unknown to them.
I have discovered that faith has a childlike quality. For my faith to deepen, I need to trust, be humble, sincere, and open. Like a muscle, it gets stronger with every use. Faith allows me to successfully face and overcome disappointments, difficulties, and obstacles that come my way; it also enables me to take myself lightly and focus more on developing better relationships, less on mundane things. An example is the ability to love and forgive a person who may be unlovable – faith in action, far more potent than hating the person.
Jesus has risen. He is alive, and he is Easter to me! To receive faith, hope, and love three in one is a gift and a privilege.
Thank you Celia for your thoughts on our Risen Jesus and how He gives meaning and purpose to our daily living.
Easter lives on even after Easter Sunday. It is how we continue to live our life for Him.
EASTER goes hand in hand with FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY. Without Jesus’ Passion, Death and Resurrection, I am nothing!
I like the analogy of faith like a muscle that gets stronger as we use it. Indeed, it is only as we use our faith in action, do we grow as it gets tested in diffrrent circumstances.
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