Saturday, April 18, 2020

RESURRECTION = RECOVERY

Alrighty then, enough of my shameless promos - it's 'Resurrection Sunday' as we like to say. Staying true to form, time to drop some 'fresh Easter eggs' on ya'll (try to make these comments timely don'tcha know!)
Okay, so we're in the middle of a crisis (not of faith, but straight up physically), with the solutions still looking shaky at best.
Now, upon the death and resurrection of Jesus, a resolution to our 'transgressionary crisis' with God was had. Jesus died (boo) but was raised (yay) to deal with the situation. And since this occurrence, we hear regularly of his demise and revival as part of our culture and faith.
May the good news of Easter, the raising of our Lord, be something we can parallel to our current situation. We hear about the numbers testing positive, and climbing cases of deaths. But, does our news and other media outlets focus much on the numbers of RECOVERY? No, because its page 2 stuff, not as 'sensational'. And its not their fault really, it's human nature to focus on the turmoil and conflict till we reach the end (like a book, yo).
RESURRECTION = RECOVERY - there's a metaphor for you! Sure, we gotta talk about the death (and the deaths); it's relevant. But, like today, when we're focused on that 'return to life' by our guy, let's simultaneously get our eye on those numbers of recovered Corona sufferers!
Just like the wages of sin are not necessarily death (thanks to the Man!), Corona isn't absolutely the mark of the death angel on you either! But, ah, humans! We get fixated and side-tracked, don't we? "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves," Arnold, The Terminator once said.
Time to quote 'ol Georgy Bush Sr. 'Stay the course, a thousand points of light.'! (Of course I only remember that from Dana Carvey's impression of him on SNL)!
Peace!

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