Theme today is Jesus' resurrection.
1. meditation
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_P1ZzYgjA
2. song
Easter Alleluia
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=downHILL
3. Narrative
https://cac.org/themes/jesus-resurrection/
Jesus’ Resurrection: Weekly Summary
Summary: Sunday, April 21—Friday, April 26, 2019
Easter is not just the final chapter of Jesus’ life, but the final chapter of history. Death does not have the last word. (Sunday)
Love is the energy that sustains the universe, moving us toward a future of resurrection. We do not even need to call it love or God or resurrection for its work to be done. (Monday)
Great love and great suffering bring us back to God, and I believe this is how Jesus himself walked humanity back to God. It is not just a path of resurrection rewards but a path that includes death and woundedness. (Tuesday)
If matter is inhabited by God, then matter is somehow eternal, and when the creed says, we believe in the “resurrection of the body,” it means our bodies too, not just Jesus’ body! As in him, so also in all of us. (Wednesday)
In the resurrection, the single physical body of Jesus moved beyond all limits of space and time into a new notion of physicality and light—which includes all of us in its embodiment. (Thursday)
Death and life are two sides of the same coin; you cannot have one without the other. Each time you surrender, each time you trust the dying, your faith is led to a deeper level and you discover a Larger Self underneath. (Friday)
Practice: Alive Again (A Song Today!)
This Easter week we’ve explored Jesus’ resurrection as an archetype of the universal pattern all life follows. In the midst of suffering, grief, or depression, it can be hard to remember that this, too, shall pass. While we can’t skip over or rush through pain to get to a happy ending, sometimes it helps to focus on resurrection. Can you recall a time when you came out the other side of a hard experience, a day when you suddenly felt free? Can you imagine joy and healing and actually feel it in your body?
From this space of hope and possibility, read aloud and listen to a choir sing this poem by e. e. cummings. Try whispering and shouting the words. Listen in stillness or while dancing. What is it like to be “alive again today”?
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened) [1]
References:
[1] E. E. Cummings, “i thank You God for most this amazing,” COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962, ed. George James Firmage (Liveright Publishing Corporation: 1950, © 1978, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust). Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. This selection may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher.
4. Prayer
Draw us forth, God of all creation. Draw us forward and away from limited certainty into the immense world of your love. Give us the capacity to even for a moment taste the richness of the feast you give us. Give us the peace to live with uncertainty, with questions, with doubts. Help us to experience the resurrection anew with open wonder and an increasing ability to see you in the people of Easter. Amen.
5. Meditation
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NvF7xXDAz34&t=1501s
6. Song
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_vnOsOwGmM0&list=RDAMVM_vnOsOwGmM0
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