Easter Sunrise - 2019
Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
Blessed be the Lord,
who daily bears us up;
God is our salvation. Selah
Psalm 68:19 (NRSV)
For me, this year’s Lenten season has had a monastic character that has slowed me down. We all searched for comfort. I like others found it in words and music. Take a listen to Sissel singing with the Tabernacle Choir.
We also searched for answers to existential questions - What does it all mean? How do we redeem our days? How do we reconnect? What about our plans? How long will this last?
For me, this Easter answers are found in new kinds of creativity, research ideas that ask hard questions, new directions found in young lives, the rededication of older lives to their vocations and the blessings of remembering and reconnecting with friends, family and community.
That is what Easter 2020 looks like to me. I pray that all our lives will experience this newness that has been promised to the world and that God’s Grace continue to finds its way into our traumatized lives.
May this Easter lead us all to see the sunrise Light of a new beauty in this world.
Shalom,
Marvin
References
Sissel - Slow Down ft. The Tabernacle Choir (Live at Temple Square)
Sissel Talks: «Slow Down»
Hage, M. L. (2019). The Saturday of Light.
