Easter
For Those Who Are Full of Faith - or Full of Questions
Happy Easter!
It’s a joyful day for people who follow Jesus, as we celebrate the Good News.
It’s also a complicated day for many people. If that’s you, I see you too.
Humans have made a mess of things, as we often do. We draw battle lines where Jesus intends peace. We create idols of the very things He rejected.
And yet He came.
Jesus entered into our messed up, polarized, confusing world. He entered in the midst of division, power struggles, an authoritarian rule.
Then, and now.
He came not in a boastful display of power but in a posture of humility. Not on a war horse but on a donkey. Not to prop up those in power, but to lift up those in need.
Then, and now.
We can refuse the twisted use of Holy scripture in our culture, used to justify violence over peace, power over humility, division over unity.
At the same time, we can live out Jesus’s call to feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, and to care for the poor and sick. Without asking who “deserves” it.
We can live in the tension of the both/and.
God is still good. And humans are still imperfect.
We can reject the performative efforts to use our faith as a weapon that harms others. And we can choose love for our neighbors instead.
Easter doesn’t ask us to ignore the mess. It meets us right here, in the messy middle.
It’s an invitation to lay down our need to be right, to acknowledge we don’t have all the answers, and to notice the beauty in spite of the brokenness.
Easter doesn’t belong to any political party, country, or church denomination. Jesus didn’t come to show preference for a certain nationality, ethnicity, or gender.
He came to be Love in a world that needs it more than ever.
Then, and now.
So if you find yourself questioning where you belong or caught in the both/and of today, maybe you’re not losing your faith. Maybe you’re finding it right where it was always meant to be.
Digging beneath the political noise, the performative platforms, and the distorted layers of culture… to find a story of love that refuses to stay buried.
Happy Easter, friends.
Wherever you find yourself today— full of faith, full of questions, or somewhere in between— may you know and feel the depth of a Love that doesn’t require having all the answers.