Easter: The Promise of Resurrection

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
~ Martin Luther

Jesus dies 'for' us not in the sense of 'in place of' but 'in solidarity with.' The first is merely a heavenly transaction of sorts; the second is a transformation of our very soul and the trajectory of history.
~ Fr. Richard Rohr

Because Jesus took into himself on the cross every evil and every sin and every brokenness to come upon this planet, there is the fragile but living hope that one day even Satan may once again join the sons of God when they gather round their Maker, and that he will beg to be allowed once again to carry the light. For, as Saint Paul wrote to the people of Philippi, "Every knee shall bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of the Father."
~ Madeleine L'Engle, from Glimpses of Grace

I believe in the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth as Jesus the Christ, and the resurrection of the body of all creatures great and small, not the literal resurrection of this tired body, this broken self, but the body as it was meant to be, the fragmented self made new; so that at the end of time all Creation will be One.
~ Madeleine L'Engle, from The Irrational Season

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