Easter and Rebirth
Today we celebrate the fact that God sent us an ambulance in the parking lot of life. A lifeline in place of despair. A love that was so pure, it brought us into the light and set us right with God and the world. So we would be set free. Free to love God and other people with the same pure love that he showed us first. He sent us back to the garden, the perfect original Eden, and brought Eden into the world again. Eden here already and not yet. Eden here already and "not yet" because we, now set free, could go about the business of bringing it to pass in this world. He reconciled us with Him and all of creation. So now we "wait and groan with all of creation for the Sons of God to be revealed" as they, as we, come to life. Coming from lives of lost seeking, and spiritual confusion - spiritual death to spiritual life. Spiritual bondage to spiritual freedom. He came to se...