An Episcopal greeting: To an Easter greeting who have everything to live for

Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we've been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for.

- 1Peter 1:3 (The Message)

The Familiar Becomes Fuzzy
Resurrection sometimes feels rare during times of great challenge. We are living in some of the most challenging times that many of us have ever experienced.

Today, the instability in the economic, job and housing markets calls into question everything that once seemed normal - a job, a home, and a level of stability. Since the foundations of our economy have been shaken, people's lives and plans have changed. The familiar became fuzzy. The ordinary is no longer routine. All of a sudden, we begin to recognize what is really important.

Self Reliance over Faith
Because of the resurrection, Peter writes, we have everything to live for. I wonder if when times are really good we actually stop living and start coasting or live as though life were a right rather than a gift. Faith becomes a confirmation of what we deserve rather than a deep commitment to live the way of Jesus Christ. The faithful have made faith a noun rather than a verb.

Ordinary Resurrections
Jonathan Kozol in his book, "Ordinary Resurrections," tells the stories of children living in the South Bronx where the economy is never good, the job market is never stable, and housing is never guaranteed.

Yet in the midst of this community, he sees resurrections everyday. He sees children whose simple belief adds up to a profound witness that life is worth living and that resurrection is not just a possibility but a reality in the South Bronx.

Kozol writes, "I feel like gleaners in the Bible, not in fields of grain but in a field of love." In the children of the South Bronx Kozol finds no pretense, no expectation that life, good life is handed to us, but that life is the deepest love in the hardest places to love. In the face of everything that is wrong with life, it is love - God's love, our love - that conquers the greatest challenges we face.

The Greek word for resurrection is anastasis, which literally means, "standing up again." For Jesus it was standing up again in the midst of persecution and death, and for children in the South Bronx it is standing up for love when everybody and everything else has given up on them.

In the church, it is reclaiming faith as an activity of belief in Christ and being passionate for justice and mercy. You see, for those who live in Christ, resurrection does not wait for Easter.

In these hard times, I am witnessing ordinary resurrections. I am seeing faith becoming a verb again, I encounter lives in which faith and love are not en_title_ments but gifts to be lived and shared.

I am witnessing churches starting or adding to their cold winter night shelters. I am hearing about faithful disciples starting support groups and workshops for the unemployed. I am seeing people assist people who are losing their homes and organizing to stop foreclosures. We are an Easter people standing up again, living ordinary resurrection.

I give thanks to God for so many Easter people and congregations in the Baltimore-Washington Conference. You are helping people to believe again that resurrection is possible.

Everything to Live For
Easter people have everything to live for. The economy, the job market, the housing market do not change them. They are the change. One can see Jesus Christ through them.

I invite you this Easter season:
To not become too familiar
with the things of the world;
To look for the ordinary resurrections
that are standing up all around you;
To be the resurrection change.

Blessed Easter!
John R. Schol

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