It is the season of Easter: the season of resurrection and the season of transformation. When we look around us we see new life everywhere. Tulips are blooming, leaves are opening on trees and plants, weeds are coming up, and fruit blossoms can be seen everywhere. Only a month ago the trees were barren as if they were dead. Shoots from bulbs were hardly peaking up above the dirt. Everything that had died is coming back to life.
I love this time of year. Seeing new life is a reminder of the possibility of transformation. In order for there to be new life, something has to die and be reborn, to be renewed. As the spring days go by I often think about transformation. I wait, watch, hope and plan for Doug to experience new life. I see changes in him from day to day. And for me, I too have to change to accommodate the changes in Doug. I have to adapt to his current needs and at the same time hope and dream for the future. I have to allow myself to be transformed as well.
On this journey both of us are being called into change. Both of us have had to do things differently. Both of us need to look forward with hope and joy, to the possibilities that the future holds. Interesting sometimes even when you anticipate change and hope for it, it can still be challenging to adapt to what the future holds and requires of us.
And so during this season of new life and our own personal resurrection, we pray that we will be continually open and willing to take on the mantle that is being placed upon us and be recreated so that we may live fully and joyfully.
And so we pray:
God of New Life and Good News, be with us during this season of Easter. Help us to see what needs to die in us, so that new life may be born in us. Help us to live fully. Help us to "be not afraid". Open
our hearts and our eyes to the possibilities that lie ahead. In your name we ask it. Amen.
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