WORD 2day: Easter Friday 2017

The Sound of Easter is Positive 

21st April: Acts 4:1-12; Jn 21:1-14

The very sound of Easter is positivity. There are voices that discourage, there are noises that confuse, there are stories that mislead. As Easter people we are called to remain positive, productive and affirmative. We are challenged to be life giving. That is what Peter and John do: they announce Christ, because they were convinced that it is in that name that humanity has life. There is no other name given here on earth, through which a person could be saved. The only name that can give life is Jesus! And so they proclaimed that name, filling the earth with life, energy, wholeness and meaning. There were those who could not bear it or hear it or understand it. 

Even the disciples did not hear that initially - they heard voices that disturbed them, they were frightened; they heard noises that confused them, they were discouraged; they heard stories that misled them, they were returning to their old lives. But Jesus intercepted them, giving them back their meaning, direction and purpose - they heard his voice, they heard the call, they heard the sound of easter - the positive call to go on! Amidst discouraging experiences and disturbing factors in life, we are called to go on without giving up, because the very sound of Easter is positive!

WORD 2day: Easter Thursday 2017

The Fragrance of Easter is Hope

20th April: Acts 3: 11-26; Lk 24: 35-48

The part that remains even after the thing is removed from vicinity is the fragrance! And the fragrance that is left behind by Easter is that of Hope! The people throng all around Peter and John, because they have seen something terrific. The were excited at the prospects of seeing more things as such. They were enjoying and cherishing that moment. Just imagine the excitement that would have been when the disciples  witnessed Jesus stand amidst them, that Jesus whom they thought was killed. Jesus, makes them understand that these events have always been there, foretold and awaited. Now that they are fulfilled, you get the fragrance of it, and it is hope!

Our life has to be filled with this fragrance, if not we have not yet experience true easter. Out minds, our households, our relationships, our workplaces and wherever we are, we need to sense the fragrance of hope - which says, the Lord will triumph, love will triumph, the will of God alone will triumph! Do you smell hope wherever you are? Do people smell hope, where you are?