After looking at how the story of Jesus' crucifixion and, more specifically, the time in the tomb before the resurrection echoes the lessons taught by the natural world through the cold, hard reality of winter, and how both point to a reality we all know of such "tomb time," the service then celebrates the undeniably good news of the resurrection stories, the inescapable fact of renewal in springtime, and the promise that neither will the wintry "tombs" in our lives have the last word.
To my mind, one of the most important lines in the service comes near the end:
The question is not whether we believe in resurrection but whether we have known it —known it in our own lived experience, seen it in the lives of others, felt it in the world around us.My question for you, then, is when have you experienced "resurrection" in your life? What have been the times you have felt most "dead," "entombed," and what did it feel like when you burst forth like a crocus through the last dusting of snow?
Pax tecum,
RevWik
