Easter Sunday

It’s been a long, dark, cold, and lonely winter. We’ve been isolated, polarized, and fatigued, surrounded by despair and even death. But even though we’ve journeyed through a season unprecedented in our lifetime, our current experience is not unlike the feelings the early disciples had as they made their way to the tomb where Jesus’ body had been laid to rest just days earlier. What they witnessed next changed everything, dividing the whole world into “Before” and “After”, and they knew immediately they would never be the same again. But does this day still hold that same power for us? How can what happened two thousand years ago on this, the 8th Day of Holy Week, make it possible for today to be Day One of the rest of our lives?