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Daily reflections for Lenten Easter, written by Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, OMI.

The Resurrection is not just something that happened to Jesus 2000 years ago and will happen to each of us sometime in the future after we die, when our own bodies will be raised to new life. It is that, but it is much more.

The Resurrection is something that buoys up every moment of life and every aspect of reality. God is always making new life and undergirding it with a goodness, graciousness, mercy and love that in the end, heals all wounds, forgives all sins, and brings deadness of all kinds to new life.

We feel this resurrecting power in the most ordinary moments of our lives. A sense of the Resurrection, understood in its deepest sense, manifests itself unconsciously in our vitality, in what we call health, in the feeling, however dimly, it is sensed, that it is good to be alive.

The very atomic structure of the cosmos feels and knows that resurrecting power. That is why it, like us, when we are healthy, pushes forward blindly, buoyed up by a hope that it cannot understand.

A friend of mine once sent me an Easter card that ended with the challenge. May you leave behind you a string of empty tombs. That is both my Easter wish and my Easter challenge. For all of us.

Let our wounded, muted voices begin to sing again.

Christ is risen. Life is very, very good. Happy Easter.