Today is a day of completion. I give thanks for this perfect day. Miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.” Florence Scovel Shinn, New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysician, The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925) p. 33.
For some, this is the holiest day of the year: Easter.
For some, Resurrection is about rising from the dead.
For others, today is just another day.
Did you know the word/name Easter doesn’t have it’s roots in Christianity? Easter has its roots as a secular verb meaning “to turn or move to the east.” (from a German word for East which came from a Latin word for Dawn). Some scholars believe the name Easter is derived from the pagan Goddess Eostre or Ostara, the Goddess of Spring who was celebrated at the Vernal Equinox.
And while resurrection is most often referred to (in the Christian belief) as Christ’s rising from the dead with a capital R, it is also defined as a “rising again from decay and disuse, a revival”, and most importantly “a setting of things to right”.
Resurrection is something all of us frail and flawed humans can believe in. Resurrection is shown to us in small and big ways every moment of every day….if we just look.
Those daffodils blooming when nothing else is, when there’s barely any green poking through the dirt is the hope, the sign that something special is yet to come.
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein
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