There is a most profound question that is raised on Easter Morning. It is posed by two men in dazzling garments who appear in a tomb, a burial chamber, to people who have come to verify the presence of a corpse. The shock must have been incredible and the question more than compelling. They asked, "Why do you seek the living one among the dead?" This remains as intriguing now as it was two thousand years ago. There is an empty tomb where we expected an abomination. There are angels when we anticipated the horrific. There is new life where we foresaw death.
We are called out of bondage on Easter. We are called out of our narrow thinking and limited perspective into a new dimension of understanding. It transcends the boundaries of religion, government and ideas about ourselves. We are called to a new life without the comfort of "black and white" even to the extent that death is no longer death. Earthbound eyes can no longer be fully trusted. The spiritual experience is no longer separate or something that happens outside of us. We don't have to wait for an apocalypse to find salvation. The salvation has already been given freely to one and to all. The kingdom and Easter are within each of us right here...right now.
