Easter All Year Long

What if Easter could last all year long?  I’m not talking about the exhaustion that comes from cooking, traveling, or decorating the church or your home.  No, I’m talking about the excitement of going to worship, the joy in seeing others, the hope a new life springing forth, the peace of knowing all is well for a moment, the love of knowing God gave all this for you and for me.  The passion that we express in singing Alleluia and the anticipation of more is yet to come.  

I don’t know if you have noticed, but we are living in a pretty chaotic period of history.

After years of being told “you do you” (which if you don’t know means that someone should do what they think is best, what they enjoy most, or what suits their personality, you know “you do you”)

After years of insisting that truth is relative to whatever a person determines for themselves.  Is it any wonder that chaos has emerged.  Sort of reminds me of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  

Whenever, one of the kids did what they wanted regardless of the instructions they had been given, that person’s experience would end up causing their demise.  Even with a promise of something much greater than they could imagine, the kids in the movie could not help but to give into what they wanted, when they wanted it, and how they wanted it. 

And the chaos it created prevented them from receiving the promise that was to come.

How quick does the chaos spread when we do things according to our own understanding instead of with the heart of the one who created it all.