Holy Week Devotional: Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday: New Beginnings

Scripture: John 20: 1-18

While it was still yet dark, the new thing had begun.

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Seen
by Jan Richardson

You had not imagined
that something so empty
could fill you
to overflowing,

and now you carry
the knowledge
like an awful treasure
or like a child
that curls itself
within your heart:

how the emptiness
will bear forth
a new world
you cannot fathom
but on whose edge
you stand.

So why do you linger?
You have seen,
and so you are
already blessed.
You have been seen,
and so you are
the blessing.

There is no other word
you need.
There is simply
to go
and tell.
There is simply
to begin.

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This new beginning will take work. The new home, the new start, the new day.

The journey of recovery, the road out of the tomb, will not walk itself.

But oh! Rejoice, rejoice!

What was once dead now breathes!

Life has come and filled this home.

Go and tell!

Questions for Reflection: What new thing to you need to begin? What has begun, perhaps in darkness, that God want you to continue?

Prayer:

Creator of the universe,
you made the world in beauty,
and restore all things in glory
through the victory of Jesus Christ.
We pray that, wherever your image is still disfigured
by poverty, sickness, selfishness, war and greed,
the new creation in Jesus Christ may appear in justice, love, and peace,
to the glory of your name. Amen.

(From The Revised Common Lectionary)