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THE RESURRECTION

And on the third day
Jesus rose from the dead.

It was a new day.
It was the eight day.
It was a new creation.

The new Adam was calling us
back into the Garden of Earth
to make it a new creation.

The Father lifts up the Son
to dawn on all the world.
There is light.
Darkness and night are never forever.
Easter.
Resurrection
Meaning.

Life has a new beginning,
when all seems ended.

Life has meaning
when all seems ended,
when everything seems like a cemetery,
when things are burnt to the ground;
we can start once again.

We can always start again.

Resurrection means
there is an around the corner.

Resurrection means
there is greener grass in our yard too.

Starting again.
Conversion.
Baptism.
Rebirth.

Graves, flowers, minds opening.
A great awakening.

And on that first day of the new week
Mary and the women went to the grave
and they found it empty, open.

Hope.

And they experienced Resurrection.
They experienced Jesus,
the dove returning from the other side of death
with the olive branch, the sign of peace.

And they rushed to tell the apostles.
There they were still in the darkness of the upper room –
a tomb, and suddenly Jesus stood in their midst
and also gave them a sign of peace.

Easter.
A new day,
a new way of seeing things,
a new way of seeing Christ.
a new way of seeing each other.
a new way of seeing life.

Easter:
the day the apostles rose from the dead!
And Mary again rejoiced in God her savior,
because he who was humbled has been exalted, alleluia.
And the early church began to bud,
began to green, began to grow.
The fig tree we all thought dead has suddenly come to life and gives fruit.