A promise kept

Posted on April 24th, 2011 by Jeff McDonald

As we come to the end of Holy Week, a week where Christ-related news stories involved church bombings, sex abuse by clerics and protecting hate speech by Christian fundamentalists – with breaks devoted to ads for Easter candy and holiday sales events – it’s good to remember the biggest news story of all …

He is risen …
Christ is risen, indeed …

“We are the Easter people,” Pastor Jim Miles of First Presbyterian-Fort Stockton reminds us ….. and that is what we affirm today, the day for which we have prepared all week, the day for which we live at all times. A promise was made on a joyful, star-lit night, in a stable in Bethlehem … but that promise was kept on a bloody, storm-darkened day, on a hill outside of Jerusalem …

… and affirmed in the early morning, two days later, by the ground as it shook, by an empty tomb and a heavenly messenger, and by greetings on the road from someone who couldn’t possibly be there … even though he had said all along that he would be … now and forever.

Alleluia … Amen