Easter Meditation One - Easter People

We Are Easter People What do we mean when we say that we are Easter People? On Easter Monday we wake up to our usual Monday reality. We still have to get up and go to work, we still have a sore knee from a fall on Good Friday, we still have that neighbour complaining about our yard, we still have that Chemotherapy appointment to get to. So what has changed on Easter Monday; what does it mean to be Easter People? The natural world has not changed, the political world has not changed, nor has the historical realities that shaped our present situation, changed. But the reality of who we are now, and the destiny to which we are called now, has radically changed. Now we will live in an intimate, spiritual communion with that Jesus, who is risen from the dead, who remains with us to shape entirely how we see ourselves now, how we will negotiate with the world around us here after, and who will replace the anxiety that shapes all life with the certainty of our resurrection with Him into eternal life. Easter People still get wet when it rains; the reality of the world touches them the same as it touches everyone. But the way they touch the world back is changed, because of how they now see the world. The first principle that dominates the world is "the survival of the fittest". All champions of life, both real and mythical, are conquers by force and power. That works if all there is is this material world; life that is short, and in the end death. Easter People have learnt that death is not the end of the story. The victory they have come to know, is not worldly conquest, but victory over death itself; the victory of "resurrected life" lives in them now, shaping their world view with a heavenly vision. Easter People begin to live life now as they will live it eternally. But this is also a work in progress as they undergo that transformation of this earthly existence into that which they see revealed in the risen Christ Jesus.

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