The silence of Holy Saturday is shattered by the cracking sounds of the the stone shattering, and the emptiness filled by the fullness brought by a totally unexpected, never-before-happened event - the crucified and entombed Jesus bursting forth from the tomb in a blaze of glorious light.
The simple but powerful message of Easter: "there is sunshine after the rain, there is laughter after the pain"; there is life after death!
"He has risen from the dead and now he is going before you to Galilee" (Gospel of Mathew, 28, 7)
About 750 years before Christ, the Prophet Hosea wrote:
"he has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us; he has struck us down, but he will bandage our wounds; after a day or two he will bring us back to life, and on the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his presence." (Hosea 6,1-2).
May those infected by the Covid-19 experience the healing, and may all our woundings (psychological, economic, relational etc. ...) during the time of lockout be bandaged, and may we all experience the newness and aliveness that Easter symbolizes.
There is life after Corona! -- A life that is transformed by the Corona!
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