Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed!
It was later in the afternoon yesterday when I received these words as a text message on my cell phone. They came from an alumni, an alumni who had remained in Clemson for a few years after graduation, meaning we had celebrated many Easters together. During those years, we had shared many experiences, some where the promise of resurrection was the anchor enabled us to continue.
A phone call, a hour or so later, began with these same words. “No one has spoken these words to me, yet. I needed to hear them.” Taking advantage of the opportunity to visit the church of loved ones who had died, this person had a wonderful Easter morning experience, but had not heard the refrain which signals Easter to those at home in liturgical churches.
Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed!
Pastor Shealy spoke yesterday of each of us as “proclaimers” of the good news. And that we are. It is in speaking the words to one another that their power is made known. It is the repeating of these words in each generation which makes it possible for the next to embrace faith. Our faith developed on the traditions of those who have gone before us; the faithful response of those who come after us will be built on our witness.
Christ is risen! Christ in risen indeed! Let us repeat the refrain and share the good news and make real in the lives of those around us the hope and promise which is ours in Christ Jesus.
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