I was talking to my friend Vince about this and that; a project we were working on together and next steps to move it forward; status of friends that we have in common and how busy we were in preparations for Holy Week and the culminating day, Easter. I jokingly asked? "What happens after Resurrection?" I was referencing the current trend to sometimes name what has been traditionally called Easter as "Resurrection Day"
I didn't mean it as anything profound, but it is a kind of deep question. If you put this question into Google, the responses back seem to all answer this question: "What happened after the Resurrection". But when I was speaking to Vince I was asking a slightly different question.
My question was an acknowledgement that we spend the 40 days of Lent and the following Holy Week in preparation for Resurrection Day. My question in large part was to myself. "How will I be different after Resurrection Day" or possibly "How will 'it' (the world, our existence) be different after this Resurrection Day.
Today I began to look for some answers to that question. A couple of interesting answers that I found are below. My search for the answer to this question continues . . .
Resurrection does not have to do exclusively with what happens after we are buried or cremated. It does have to do with that, but first of all it has to do with the way we live right now. But as Karl Barth, quoting Nietzsche, pithily reminds us: “Only where graves are is there resurrection.” We practice our death by giving up our will to live on our own terms. Only in that relinquishment or renunciation are we able to practice resurrection.
https://www.tyndale.com/sites/readthearc/how-to-live-the-resurrection-life/
". . . if the resurrection is a moment that happened and continues to happen and will continue to happen not just in the life of Jesus, but also in the lives of those of us who call him Lord, then we can begin to see its transforming power in how we respond to the tragedies in our own lives, how we love and console one another, how we work together to keep evil from ruling tomorrow, and how we come together to alleviate the daily suffering that is all around us."
https://www.ministrymatters.com/all/entry/6790/what-changed-after-the-r…
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