Easter 2015: Changing our pose.
/If you were asked to get up and stand in the position or pose of you faith, what would it look like?
- Would you have your hands up shielding your face from whatever may come your way because your faith is defensive?
- Would you stand with one foot extended, as if dipping your toe in the water, because your faith is timid?
- Would both hands be defiantly placed on either hip or across your chest illustrating your “I’m in charge” faith.
- Or are your arms spread out and head tilted back taking in the new day that’s been given, trusting the world and the one who created it, absolutely?
Such an exercise is helpful, because we so often think we live our lives of faith one way when, in fact, we live it another. I am convinced we are to strike the open pose, and yet we so often live defensively, timidly, or defiantly. I suppose we do so because we do not have complete trust. We say we believe in someone greater than ourselves, but live as if our lives depend on us.
What would it look and feel like if we changed our pose? What would we do with our lives if we saw them from the view of abundance rather than scarcity? What if we awakened and said not "What's is going to happen to me today," but instead "What does God have in store for me today?" What if we really lived as if there’s a God? What if we lived believing God loves us and wants us to have an amazing life?
I know, many of us claim to believe just that, but then why don’t we live that way? Why don’t we spread our arms wide to life, others, and God? Why do we play it safe and accept an average life?
Maybe it’s because we feel safer not wanting too much. Maybe we feel we don’t deserve any better? Whatever the reason, Easter, of all days, is a day in which we need to ponder life without limits, life beyond our wildest dreams, life of empty tombs.
Some of us will continue to sit on the hillside and accept things as they are, looking at the stone and mourning what once was and cry "Oh well." Others, however, will take the energy of the morning and roll away the stone. It is they who will find an tomb’s empty, they who will know the miracle of life, they who will shout "He is risen!"