Easter has always been BOGOF – Buy One Get One Free.
…not deserving this the greatest of all gifts, have the love of the One Who Loves us Best lavished upon us not once but twice! We are saved by the death of our Beloved and we are saved even more by His Resurrection.
What we need is a Saviour.
Someone who knows about the costly price of making peace.
Someone who can carry this cross for us.
Someone who we can gaze upon, be captivated by, and try to imitate.
Now is the time to open our eyes more widely.
Now is the time to give our shackles a shake; they are ready to fall off.
Now is the time to drink deeply from the well of Living Water.
Meeting Jesus [Mary Magdalene] knew she could no longer be the false self she was living, trying to gain acceptance by being a plaything of others instead of being the servant of the Lord.
When we finally learn that indeed, ‘your steadfast love is better than life’, the only thing we can do is praise and dance and sing.
…if we can’t worship with the rest of the Body of Christ we will worship where we are because the Spirit of God is not imprisoned in the sanctuary of a cathedral or the pulpit of a chapel.
You are King of all creation they’ll say.
One day
…the faithful should not flinch when named as tree-huggers and Net-Zeroniks. This is our calling. We care for the creation because we know it reflects the Creator. And if we care enough for trees and bugs and flowers and streams we may even learn to care for each other….
…I for one am letting
All my walls fall down
In this place of safety
This child has finally found
We do not know what the future holds so it is important to learn who holds the future and hold on to them (cf James 4v13-17).
Suffolk Vicar 