This year Easter is different for me. It resonates on a deeper level this year in ways that I have never experienced. I’m beginning to see that God wants to resurrect me. The more that I embrace His love the more I can see it. And it is this deep love that has permeated so much of my life this year. I cannot begin to describe how I feel other than to say, “I am loved.”
You see I think that’s what is so astonishing to me. God chose to love regardless. He chose to love me when I feel loveless. He chose to validate me when I feel worthless. He chose to call me son and invited me to call him daddy. On Good Friday he showed me how far love would go to prove it to me. But today, on Easter Sunday, he showed me what the purpose of that love was, to resurrect me.
So much of this year has been God inviting me to participate in that. He’s asking me, “Will you love regardless? Will you love even when you don’t want to?” And some days I honestly just don’t want to. I want to punch and kick and scream back at the world that seems so callous. I want to yell back at God as say, “There’s just no way?”
And no matter how much I say it, God reminds me, “Yes you can. See my Son. That is what I am shaping you to be. That is what the journey of love is creating. And when you love, when you love regardless, you are showing the world who I am, and who you are becoming.”
Thank you Jesus for showing me how to love regardless.
Missio Dei 