Happy Easter! When you think of Easter, invariably visions of cute little bunnies and kids dressed in impeccable pastel finery running around the yard carrying baskets full of green plastic strips mimicking grass while searching for brightly colored eggs that have been hidden in plain sight. But regardless its origins, what the day represents is something more important: it represents the day that the greatest man who ever lived rose from the dead after being killed by crucifixion three days earlier. This event was the single most significant point in human history and it is the foundation for our salvation to eternal life after death on Earth.
Today, more than ever before, we need to look at one another, not as strangers but as kin because we are all related by blood, not shed by us but shed for us. For many centuries, men have committed uncounted atrocities against fellow human beings in the name of gods (both capital “G” and little “g”) but God doesn’t call for that. Jesus taught love and peace, accepting and embracing those sneered at by the establishment of the day, teaching that everyone was worthy of love and acceptance. Maybe, just maybe if we tried to revisit that idea in our current lives and concentrate on what Jesus taught, the world’s future might be somewhat less bleak.
