Monday, 24 April 2006

• Currently Listening How to Live With a Curse By Stavesacre see related

  Older, Easter and bringing redemption to a broken and sin twisted world

  So, the greatest holiday of all time just slipped by.  You're probably thinking Easter; you're wrong.  My birthday.  I just passed a real milestone: 23.  Crap, what the heck happened?  I was just 17 the other day, I swear.  Weird.  Anyhoo...I was thinking today, ok, over the past couple of days I've been thinking about this. 

  These two events just slipped by without much mention-birthday and Easter.  Birthday's aren't a big deal.  They come and they go...whatever.  Easter IS a HUGE deal!  I know we live in a culture that likes to commercialize everything and lose the meaning of cultural traditions/holidays in empty consumerism.  I know; thats an all too cliche complaint. 

  Here's what scares me: it slipped right by me too.  Sure I went to an Easter service - and it was incredible - but I found myself allowing Easter to slip by without much thought and reflection.  Ouch...have I bought into the same thing as the broken and largely spiritually bankrupt culture that I live in?  More over, why haven't I strained to do my part in redeeming this tragic mis-understanding?  How have I failed my circle of influence if I have not thrown my entire being into bringing the world in which I live to a fuller redemption in our glorious Christ?  Maybe failure is found in one's inability to recognize such short comings and the unwillingness to change.

  May I strain, pull, push, shout, run, sing, write, go, show, live, make, and take whatever action is necessary to lead the world in which I live closer to the compassionate Father that is our Creator.  May my efforts, ordained by my gracious God, aide in bringing this man and world in which he lives to full redemption.  May the Kingdom come in our midst. 

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