Easter

Tomorrow is Easter.  What Easter means to you or to me is as unique as each one of us is. Think of the world of individuals – every being, every solitary thought, every experience, every action. Uniquely perceived and perceiving.  Easter has just that many meanings!  That we are able to come to any sense of agreement or harmony about any thing is miraculous and hints at our capacity to transcend our limitations – to die to one way of being, to arise to a new way.  To surrender, to let go, to start over; to go beyond our boundaries to our possibilities. We reach to one another again and again, reaching past our hurt and suffering and fear. Each time we reach, we discover love.  We grow astonishingly beautiful, love-ly. We re-enact our Easter in each unfolding moment of time, all the days that we are given. We are the verb "Easter."

 From “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, we hear these Easter words:

Love people even in their sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth.  Love all of God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

May your Easter be one of new life, new love, loving action ....