Anticipate Life

I have heard it said that the thing that separates other world views and Christianity is that the founders of other world views try to make bad people good but Jesus came to make dead people live. As I celebrate Easter this year I am reminded of the magnitude of this claim that Jesus rose from the dead. I hear people try to explain it away; rationalize their own meaning; pontificate on the metaphorical significance; and others just deny it. I am confronted with my own apathy toward it - I've grown up with the story and the shiny finish has dulled with time. As someone who sees death on a weekly basis it is easy to anticipate and expect death - seeing the heartache and grief firsthand of those torn from the ones they love. But just as those going to the tomb expected death - they found life. They found presence. They found hope. Not completely understood but reality nonetheless. Anticipate life.