Thought for Today
by Revd Canon David White
31st March 2024 - Easter Sunday
Alleluia. Christ is risen.
I used to come to Easter wanting to say something profound, novel, earthshattering and different. Sometimes my ego gets the better of me and I still want to do that, but the longer I live the more I just want to say and hear the same old thing: “He is not here; for he has been raised.”
That’s what I said last Easter, the one before that, and the one before that. It’s what I’ve said for the last thirty-five Easters. Every year it’s the same. It never changes. And I’ve got nothing new to say now.
Every year at Easter we tell the same old story. We’ve been repeating ourselves for two thousand years. We know how the story ends as soon as it begins. We’ve heard it all before.
And that’s the best thing I can say. It means that we can count on the Easter story. It’s trustworthy and here to stay. Regardless of who we are, what has and has not happened in our life, what we’ve done and left undone, or what we do and do not believe, the story is true for us all. The risen Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
I want to be reminded that Easter is still true and still happening. I want to hear the same old story one more time. Not because I think the story has changed since last year, but because my world and life have changed over the last year. Because I’ve changed over the last year – and so have you.
Alleluia. Christ is risen. Alleluia. We are risen.