We have the power to..

Resurrect

“We have the power to resurrect from any crisis—from anything facing us. We can resurrect from anything that is taking our power. We can call our spirit back. We can rise above whatever is happening in the matter world. We can look past the illusion that this is not defeatable.”

Caroline Myss (Easter Message, 2020)

          Here we are in the world of matter, spending a fourth week in isolation in our homes, watching our elected leaders fight one another over what to do to help, and our president dithering on, changing his mind every other minute, and claiming he is the only power in the land and the final decider. Let me just say that our leaders, including the president, have no more power over this virus than we do individually. We are at the mercy of the virus. We must listen to the leaders we have who know something about contagious diseases and block out all the background noise. When we are in our right minds, and not fighting one another about who is right and who is wrong, we know that what we must do is hunker down until the virus burns itself out, or our infectious disease experts find a treatment or create a vaccine. What is most difficult for us is admitting that we have no power in the face of this illness. We, who have fed ourselves a steady diet of power and more power, find it almost impossible to admit that we truly have no power over this.

          Resurrection is possible for everyone—not just Jesus. When we begin to see ourselves not as warriors all the time, but as vulnerable human beings. When we take off the armor of “we’re the greatest nation in the world,” and the helmet of “we’re the most innovative and powerful;” when we unbuckle our notion of “God is on our side,” and “our military is bigger than yours.” When we get down to the very same skin as every other human being, and expose the nakedness of our human vulnerability, then we may see that grace is the answer. Not just in the middle of a pandemic we can’t control, but all day, every day.

And we may be able to see that the light of grace does not come from anything solid and strong in terms of the world. Grace is a gift that is always available; it is all we need, and our only true refuge. Then, maybe we will grasp that we are strong beyond measure, and that we need not fear—not because we have an arsenal of guns and anger that gears us for war—but because grace flows from unfathomable love, and is not only our best shield, but also our best medicine. Perhaps then we will understand the true meaning of resurrection.

                                                  In the Spirit,

                                                  Jane