Are you ready for Easter?  

If you have kids (and maybe even if you don’t!) you probably have the colored eggs, the baskets with fake grass, and the bunny decorations all ready to go.  Good for you!  These are wonderful traditions that carry many memories.  

But is that all there is to getting ready for Easter?  As we move into the last half of this Holy Week, it is important to get ready for Easter in a more essential way, a spiritual way, a faithful way.

Easter is not just about eggs and bunnies—most would acknowledge that.  But I would argue that Easter is also not about simply commemorating an event some 2,000 years ago when the horrific was overtaken by the miraculous.  

Easter is not just an historic event we celebrate; it is something we need today.  We need it because of the promise it brings in the midst of the darkness in this world today, not just the ancient world of Jesus’ day.  

Holy Week calls us to an appreciation, an acknowledgment, a naming of the darkness in our lives and this world so that we can allow that light of the resurrection in with all of the power of God’s new life.  

We need Easter.  We need Easter because while people are not literally crucified today, there are undeniable crucifixion moments happening right now.  It’s not hard to create a list. 

But the gospel does not end on Good Friday.  God does not leave us on the crosses of life.  What also exists and what is also real—more real—is the truth of Easter.

As we contemplate crucifixions this Holy Week, let’s hold fast—with undying confidence—to the promise that resurrection is assured, that every colossal challenge we face is miniscule compared to the love of God, and that the stone will be rolled away and the sunlight will come pouring in.

See you in church,

–Rev. Dominic