I missed Easter!
April 8, 2008
I missed Easter this year.
I missed singing “Christ Arose” and “Because He Lives!” I missed seeing the soft hues of the new spring attire. I missed the excitement of the egg hunt by the children. I missed all the joyful celebrations of Resurrection Day.
No, I wasn’t sick or too busy. I was traveling home from Albuquerque, New Mexico from my Mother’s home going. Her memorial service on Saturday was more of a celebration than a sorrowing. Family members remembered and shared story after story of her life as a totally surrendered, Spirit filled mother and grandmother whose influence on all of us was so incredible. Mom had been trapped for years in a worn out body and a mind lost in dementia, so we rejoiced that now she had been set free forever. “…The mortal had put on immortality…death had been swallowed up in victory.” 1Corinthians 15:54b (NKJV).
When we began the three day road trip back home on Easter morning, a great sadness swept over me as I watched families driving to church in their holiday best. For the first time in my life I was missing Easter. Then, once again the Holy Spirit dropped a nugget into my spirit that made me rejoice. What better way to celebrate Easter than rejoice over Mom’s home going? After all, she wasn’t dead, but alive and whole in the presence of Jesus. Because He lives she lives also, and so do I, both now and in eternity, and I will be with her again soon. Hallelujah, Christ Arose!!
How about you, Friend? Do you have this blessed hope? In John 14:19b (NKJV) Jesus says, “Because I live, you shall live also.” “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:8 (KJV)
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