I CAN BUT TRY 2

 EASTER: 
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES

"Now is not the time", as we often say, but suppose "time" is not the currency we're using. Suppose instead of thinking in centuries, generations or even the space between general elections, we were asked instead to put time aside and measure all our thinking against the background of eternity, what then? Would we so much as know where to begin? Funnily enough we would, you know, or at least should.
 

Today, Easter Sunday, rouses us with the answer. Though it is tempting to think that if cameras had been around "when he rose out from the tomb" we would have had first hand proof, all we needed to set our minds at ease and solve all our doubts, in fact such a thought is silly and wrong. 

Easter could never have been recorded on camera, even digital, because Easter is not an event at all in the way history records such things. Put away cameras, diaries, clocks and tape recorders for Easter is rooted in none of these things but in something we call eternity.

In eternity none of the usual elements come into play, not time, not space, not place, size or gravity. Not, directions or colour. None of these.  In eternity we are freed from dependency on all of these things, freed to be in the sheer presence of God. "Free at last, thank God Almighty, free at last."  Alleluia.  

Easter invites every human being to cross the threshold from time to eternity. Yes we will have to go on using the things of time for they are the elements that make up life as we know it.  But if we are one day to leave all these things aside and make the crossing from time to eternity then we must even now, live with our trust and hope not in time but in eternity. This is the great challenge of Easter; to live lives of FAITH. Not faith as a lame excuse for continuing to believe things reason cannot explain but faith that puts Hope and Trust in a world beyond mere reason.

Jesus showed us: Hanging there on the Cross in the world of time, he cried as we all would, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? But then, crossing from time to eternity he declares for himself and for all who journey in faith,  Father, into your hands I commit my Spirit. 

Especially must the Church, while hanging out in the world of time, be courageous enough to set out all its thinking, make all its decisions, not on the basis of this world of time, but of eternity, Resurrection Land.