“The only thing that remains constant is our Creator’s insatiable desire to make all things new. It has no attachment to

form, only to movement and Love’s expression. And what God creates is

eternal and is never lost.”

By using a metaphysical interpretation of the Easter story,

it allows us to embrace the spiritual meaning and principles above the literal level of the story and to find a personal

connection with the story.

Things we have in common with the Easter Story...

A Divine Birth (Spirit taking on form)

A Herod figure in our families or lives (Someone who wanted to deny our

uniqueness; in response, we either left or stayed and retreated in our own minds.)

Years of wandering in the wilderness (Feeling lost)

Moments of baptism

(Feeling the call of something greater within and dedicating ourselves to live

this truth at all costs)

Moments when tempted to give up our resolve

(When we fall into fear, the past, and voices of doubt within and around us)

Betrayals

(On many levels)

Crucifixions (The un-structuring and dismantling of our lives)

Tomb Time (The amount of time it takes to get over it)

Resurrections (New beginnings)

But what is it about the journey of transformation that

I have quit listening to?

Or what have I stopped noticing?

Or what is there in the story that I don’t want to hear?

I quit listening when someone wants to talk about the three days

in the tomb which many refer to as the “dark night of the soul.”

I want to talk about the resurrection!

I don’t like the part that leads up to the betrayal and murder.

It doesn’t match my idea of how the world SHOULD work.

In the gospel of Luke we read:

And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying,

"My Father, if it is possible, take this cup away from Me…"

After Passover dinner, he took Peter and James into the garden and asked

them to hang out while he prayed.

I don’t like this part because he became distressed and fell to the ground on his

face and said, “Oh God, I know everything is possible. And if it is

possible, I would prefer not to have to go through this and yet, it’s not my will

that prevails, but yours.”

It says to me that there are serious limits to what I can do –

but when aligned with God, everything becomes possible.

So here’s the good news!

In life, you can’t have a wonderful “afterwards” without experiencing the process of letting something

else in your life “die!”

So what’s our fear around that?

Fear of the unknown

Doubt that I will survive the change

Attachment to what is going on now

The suffering that is caused by not accepting what “is” and that I won’t

recognize my life without “this.” I won’t recognize my life!

When Jesus returned, he was not recognizable. The previous version had

died away and the new version was glorious to the point of not being

recognizable as the old.

Why?

Because I want total newness without going through all that “Stuff.”

We suffer because we want the change but are unwilling to do what it takes to

allow it to happen. You can’t have it how it is now and

also how it will be afterwards.

Consider the parts of your life which appear to lie outside of this activity…

Where change and healing appear impossible. People appear unreachable.

Where forgiveness seems almost impossible. Where you are sure

“It will always be like this.”

Then remember, “The only thing that remains constant is our Creator’s

insatiable desire to make all things new. It has no attachment to form, only to movement and Love’s

expression. And what God creates is eternal and is never lost.”