Easter Resilience

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Easter Resilience

The Webster’s dictionary defines the adjective resilient as, “capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture.” Resilience, the noun, is “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.”

With the historical coronavirus pandemic raging around us, our circumstances scream for resilience. We need it, and we need it now. Playing hide and seek, children shout ‘Ready or not’ and open their eyes when they start to hunt their hidden playmates. So today, ready or not, the coronavirus has changed our lives. And we are hunting for the hidden resources deep within us to cope. Nearly every aspect of our life is different in these trying times. Let’s use this Easter season to deepen the protective coat of resilience Easter offers to our lives.

Easter is the time of year when our celebration of the life, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus calls us to consider how much peace is available to us when we believe in Jesus and are reassured that God has prepared a heavenly home for us. What rest comes from our belief! Someday we will dwell in Heaven in the presence of our God. Jesus paid the price; and by doing it, demonstrated He even cares about what is happening with us in the here and now. While we don’t want to hasten our homegoing, we know our heavenly home awaits us. So TAKE THAT Covid 19! Ask Jesus to flood our home and our minds with His peace. A study of the scripture shows He also heals.

What develops resilience in our lives, in our very souls? Hardships, uncertainties bewilderment and danger all provide a training ground to exercise our beliefs and harden our endurance. We can practice trusting God to develop the toughness of heart and attitudes which allows us to overcome the current troubles which, in turn, will strengthen us for future needs regardless of what is going on around us. God’s heart must break as he watches our heart aches, when He see our distress as things we counted on crumble before us. But He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and we can put our trust in Him. We can allow trying times to polish our trust. Even a world-wide pandemic is not beyond His ability to help us through it. Look for evidence of God’s goodness, love and power and in the midst of a pandemic. Recognizing and thanking Him for every small thing will strengthen our trust and resilience.

He arose from the grave. Through His strength we can arise above the world’s troubles.