For: The Essentials Formation Online Worship Values Course with Dan Wilt
Moved by my Essentials classes and devotional calls, I set my alarm for 6:10am so I could watch the sunrise at 6:40am this morning. My ‘me’ has seen 55 Easter Sundays so far, some I remember more than others. This one felt special and while I can’t quite word it, the specialness of the day or should I say my awareness of it is being so impacted by my Christian worship community both local and online. We have all been on a quest, together, this year and now something beautiful is dawning on us.
The Paschal Mystery figures deeply in this morning for me. As the sun came up, my imagination drank in the accounts of Jesus Christ’s resurrection from all four Gospels. They took me back to a January morning, standing in a Jerusalem garden, by an empty tomb with folks from our worship ministry. At the same time, in was acutely aware of the birds singing all around me, the beauty of my wife’s flowers, the smell of the fresh cut grass. Somehow the moment of sunrise, silent in it’s coming, unstoppable in it’s moment, reminding us of the foundational moment of our faith, transcends all time. In a language all can hear and understand, it tells of a moment long ago, speaks to a present transformed life, and sings of a wonderful future yet to come.
Such a glorious, wonderful, amazing, mysterious Resurrection sunrise it was, is and is to be!
Happy Resurrection Sunday!
Mark Grosz