It's been a little while since I've written. I forget that writing is a necessary processing tool for me. I am in the process of deciding on graduate schools, trying to finish up the year with these children, and figuring out that I may be saying goodbye to a lot very soon. There is so much uncertainty looming ahead...for me, for my family, for the world...but, when is anything certain? This whole living, breathing, and following Jesus is full of uncertainty because WE are not supposed to know. We are called to walk, to leap, to hop sometimes, and even to be still at times to do what God has called us to do. Loving requires walking alongside others, sitting still to listen to someone's heart, hopping along, and sometimes letting them walk ahead while we stay behind.
We celebrated Easter yesterday and it was a good day...beautiful weather, family, good friends...all around pretty normal. I believe the celebration of Easter is essential for believers, but why don't we celebrate it every day...by the way we live? Christ rose from the dead years and years and years ago...but he rose not just to RISE and show everybody that he was right, but to LIVE in us. Jesus did not take the kingdom back up to heaven with him...he left us in charge of it! Overwhelming if you think about it--we have been entrusted with the kingdom, with the power, with his authority reigning, to bring hope to the hopeless, grace to the ones who need it, beauty to the ugliest things in this world, love to the unloveable....because Jesus didn't just rise once and for all, but rises in each of us and in others as we share his love with the world.
I need help with this--I need to remember the risen LORD is in me and isn't done...the kingdom is here and continues to come.
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