30/03/2024

Easter Sunday 2024

Jesus had to rise from the dead to demonstrate  - to enable us to realise – his, what is technically called,  hypostatic union. He was and is both fully God and fully man. 

He translated divinity into the vernacular of our humanity. So, when we read the Gospels and hear him speak and see – well imagine - how he acted, we learn about God – who is more of a verb than a noun. God is, God lives, God loves.

My relationship with God – my soul - keeps me alive in space-time. At death, that relationship is drawn into eternity and I remain there with God.

We see that God is there for us, serving us as we read in John’s Last Supper. The Creator of the universe wants to wash my feet. Bearing that in mind, how could I ever feel worthless and depressed? I don’t. Thanks to Jesus – the one I call Yesh, my best friend.

We do know that about 4 billion years ago, there was no life on Earth, and 3.7 billion years ago, there was. No one knows what happened, how life arrived? All I know is that is must have been God who caused it.

On Good Friday evening, the body of Jesus was dead. Some forty hours later it was alive.

The only explanation that works for me is God restructured the atoms and molecules in that body so it could breathe, think move and feel.

Personally, I can’t wait to be dead and be alive with God. But, currently it seems, God wants me to keep on helping him with my feet on – not my body below- the ground.

Through what I do, I earn my crust and help God help you – with homilies too short to be boring.