Easter

Easter – a time to connect with our immortal spark.

At Easter the church celebrates the resurrection of Christ. The story is written vividly about how he was executed on Good Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. This is of course a story told to help us understand more about ourselves and our own losses and rebirths, as Gnostic Christian the Rev. Steven Marshall in A Homily for Easter Sunday puts it, ‘Easter is the inner resurrection of the human spirit, the liberation and rising up of that immortal spark of the divine light within us’.

When someone close to us dies we can feel a profound loss. We can feel that we can’t go on living ourselves. We are forced to redefine ourselves and reinvent our role, now we may be orphaned, without a partner, or a child. We may go through an unravelling of our own life, until eventually enough has been unravelled to start to make sense of what we see now, and a new resurrected you begins to take shape. 

Throughout life there are many deaths, some small, some huge, and each time we lose we can reform a resurrected form of ourself, allowing our own immortal spark to come through and the divine light within us can show through.  Easter is all about finding a better version of ourself to live with more compassion and to live more fully in terms of all beings, it’s not just about bunnies, chicks and chocolate.