Window to Easter

Through what window do you view the world?  The window through which you look out at the surrounding world will determine your perspective. 

I have occasion to sit with many who are confined inside and who can see the world only through the windows of their homes.  On a recent visit with Virginia Farnsworth we were looking out her window.  I pointed out to her that she has a knack for finding windows with interesting and amazing views.  She shared memories of her favorite window.  It was while sitting on a window seat as a child and looking through the window into the neighborhood street where she lived as a child.  Her perspective on life has developed a very positive vantage point, finding the beauty in what she sees and accepting what the view presents.

I wonder what window most of us look through to view our world and find our place in the world around us.  I would like to suggest that we look through the window we call Easter.  I am not talking about looking through the window and observing Easter as it occurs and passes with the passing of a day.  I am suggesting that Easter is the window. 

Easter is more than a historical event, more than the end of Lent.  Easter is the Spirit that transforms and changes and creates; Easter is the Spirit that gives hope, joy, peace, patience, serenity in the face of life’s seemingly defeating moments.

Easter is not merely a day.  Easter is a new way of being, a new way of living in relationship with God and neighbor.  Easter is about the ultimate transformation in which every person is invited to participate in throughout the year.

Easter is not an event we observe through a window.  It is the window through which we view all of life.  It gives us a perspective of hope and newness of life.  Easter is the opportunity and possibility of viewing life as eternal.  It is a window that changes our perspective on living and dying.  Through the window of Easter we come to realize what Eckhart Tolle meant when he wrote, “Death is not the opposite of life.  Life has no opposite.  The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.”

As we approach Easter, come let us sit together at this, our shared Holy window and have our perspective of  life and of  living renewed .  Let the way we live life be transformed by the window of Easter.