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Friday, April 3, 2009. We have talked about the cross of Jesus over the last days. This cross plays a central role in the easter days where all Christians on this globe celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus.

Easter can be a nice holiday, when most schools close for one or two weeks and we have some time to relax and recover from some months of hard work. Easter often is an occasion to meet family and friends, to have nice dinners, to sit outside in early spring and enjoy the first warm days of the year. All this is fine, and I hope that you can get something of it. But the original idea of the easter days is much deeper, much wider, much more revolutionary!

Easter can be a personal turning point. The things which are celebrated here are more than just distinct events. Easter is an invitation, to start a life based on Jesus. In him we meet God - and he is no longer dead! He lives today and he is here with his holy spirit (which is celebrated 50 days after easter on pentacost).

The easter days can be my and your days of renewal of faith, even if our faith is as dead as Jesus has been on the cross. Our faith may be buried by many decisions to act as if God would not exist. It might be dead since we are too week to believe, perhaps we felt not able to deal with the many questions and counterarguments? The powers of the world have always been strong, for example when they put the son of God to the cross. But the death was not permanent. God's wisdom and power is stronger than the powers of this time. There is new life in the resurrection, and he can call our faith into life as well. Today we can ask him to give new faith to us. Easter is his symbol, a turning point in spring for us. Will we turn to him? [R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu]

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