Easter is over. Easter is here.

Easter is a holiday, famous for bunnies, candy, and confusion about what bunnies and candy has to do with Jesus. But truly Easter is like the phrase, the King is Dead, Long live the King. This phrase came from 15th Century France, a time of monarchy in need of continuity. The phrase announces the death of the king at the same time announcing the ascension of the next. No gap.

Easter is not here and then gone. The statement that “Christ is Risen” is a statement that is true every day. The seasons may change and they are certainly changing rapidly now, but the reality of the resurrection doesn’t. We are an Easter people, we live life knowing that Christ is Risen and the tomb is empty. We live in the truth that though death still lingers, its power is over. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. –
Romans 8:38-39