Larry had an Easter post that is of the sort I hoped to hear on Easter morning and did not get (unless I “reinterpreted” the sermon that I heard). Leave it to the blogosphere (and of course, people who populate it and share their journey with us) to bring such hopes and thoughts my way (and our way).
Everything old has passed away; see, everything old has become new, Paul continues. (2 Corinthians 5:17b)
Those who believed that Jesus’ ministry had ended with such finality in his crucifixion and death, report that death is not the end, after all.
There is more. Paul knows it’s unexplainable and beyond proving. To believe that hope is alive and the promise is renewed, requires an act of faith.
If we believe that grief and despair give birth to hope and new life, we act like it. And if we act like it, we discover it is so. Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)
It’s a story for times like these.