This is the first Easter that I can remember spending without any church service or family activities. In a way, it’s a little sad … I am used to celebrating with other people, reflecting together on the awesome gift that was given to me through Jesus’s death and resurrection so many years ago.

But in another way, it has been calmly reassuring to be alone with God during this time. In so many ways, I’ve had a chance to center my faith this year, to focus on what’s really important and weed out some of the religious drivel that had clouded my heart and mind in the past ten years. It’s almost like I’m able to experience the reality of Easter in a much more meaningful way this year, like I’ve taken off the shades and my eyes have adjusted to the warmth and the light!

I hope that you too can find this solitude sometime today … that you can seek out a place to quietly reflect on the mercy and grace of Jesus, the ultimate expression of God’s love for you. He was the Word that was spoken to heal you, to connect you with Something beyond this dirty and broken world. And He did this by becoming dirty and broken Himself, becoming death itself so that you might become the righteousness of God. That’s what Easter is all about!

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