Easter: Son-rise discovery

      We all have heard or seen stories of an unlikely adoption of an animal by a totally different animal mother or family. The boy raised by wolves is a similar story. I am sure you could find some cute, heart warming videos on FaceBook to watch. It just seems so amazing. Does the adoptee realize what he truly is?

     Well today is pretty amazing to say the least. Queue in the nice gaggle of Jewish women heading to the tomb who are the true first witnesses to the Ressurection. If this were a video on FaceBook we'd realize the enormity of the event with some Tom of Finland type guy cast as Jesus rising from the tomb conquering death and showing us the magnificence of our human Savior reclaiming his total Divinity.

      Then the events of today start to truly get unpacked. There will be millennia of theorizing, theological treatises, and discussion about the different meanings to Christ dying for us and His Ressurection.  Perhaps one of the biggest for me is the simple act of putting a mirror to all of us. Perhaps this event in human history more than any other gives us the perspective to see that we are more than carnivorous animals fighting for food and mates on some dusty plain like a pack of wild hyenas.

     Jesus' life, death and Ressurection shows us that we have divinity within us. We catch a glimpse of our divinity, who we are and where we are headed.  We can see the glorious nature of change and possibility for all of us as humans. We see our potential for love realized in Jesus.

     A Priest friend is giving an Easter sermon about butterflies. He'll tell of a moth that surrounds itself in a cocoon not unlike what we do as humans. Father will speak of the struggle and hardship the moth will undertake to engage and emerge as a magnificent butterfly. The struggle is key as it is with us.  Does the moth know it's potential? Can the moth see what is in 'the other side of the cocoon'?

      Sometimes we struggle in life , sometimes a great deal, probably never what Jesus suffered but it may feel that way. If this glorious Easter morning shows us anything, we'll leave the theologizing to others, we can see a new way to live from Jesus, a new way to love from Jesus, a new way to die from Jesus.  But most importantly we realize we are children of God, magnificent butterfly-like children of God. We now can see our true and glorious nature and it is awe inspiring, as bright as a beautiful sunrise.

    Isn't it a magnificent and beautiful Son rise for all of us?