Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed,

1 Corinthians 15:51

Seasons Change

Spring has arrived after a not-so-much-Winter, and with it comes the evergreen message: change is inevitable. 

You know this. And the story of Easter is the story of one of the greatest changes of all. 

But Look, Jesus didn’t say it would be easy.

He promised, in fact, that it would be hard. To affect the changed he did, to cause the world to stop and to finally listen, he went to the cross, hung there, and died. 

Which isn’t to say that you or anyone you know must do the same. But it does mean that change is a little like death. Something changes, or you change. Someone resolves to stay. Someone resolves to go. In the end, what meaning you make of it all will depend in no small part on your perspective.

Where you start from says something about where you will end.

But it’s also not the whole story. Because you might just wind up in places and states that you couldn’t have anticipated, and it all starts with one simple idea: that change is not only inevitable, and that change is not only possible, but that change just might be the only path toward life. 

We couldn’t have foreseen all the changes we’ve been through in Lent. We cannot foresee all the changes we’ll go through this Eastertide. But we all be changed, in some way, and we’ll each have an opportunity to make that change either death-dealing or life-giving. 

Thank God Easter is the story of Resurrection, and a call to new life in Christ. 

Peace and Amen, 

Rev. Charley Eastman