St. Andrews by the Lake

     Here is a question for the day (or week to come):  How does your image of the resurrection influence your access to Christ? If you had been present at the moment of the resurrection of Jesus, what would you have seen? If there had been a video camera outside the tomb, what would it have recorded? I have always imaged that there would have been a huge flash of light spreading out everywhere.

     “The historical Jesus of Nazareth moved beyond any confinement in space and time and became Light Itself - which we now know from astrophysics, is everywhere (omnipresent) in the universe — and its speed is the ultimate measure of all things.  That’s why you and I have total access to the Christ.  Jesus transformed from the confined Jesus to the Cosmic Christ - which includes all of creation - and even you and me.

     We are a part of that one shared light (Ephesians 5:8), that ‘enlightens all people’ (John 1: 9), and has come from ‘the God of all Light” (James 1:17). In John’s Gospel, Jesus used the metaphor of light: “I am the Light of the world:” (8:12)   One could even say that in Christ, God and Light have become the same. And nobody on this earth can control the light. It goes where it goes — instantaneously.  Christ fills everything everywhere with Christ-presence.” (Adapted from The Cosmic Christ by Richard Rohr)

     It’s amazing how people so long ago were trying to express such powerful spiritual things in the language of light and relations and presence — which we often hear expressed today by scientists when they talk of astrophysics and quantum physics.

     So where do you see and experience Resurrection Light?

           Blessings in this Eastertide.    Cindy