The Resurrection Dance.

A glorious joyous Easter to you. My last post's reference from Mere Christianity triggered C.S. Lewis' memorable summary of living the resurrection life as Easter people. It has a contemporary ring and reminds me of Richard Rohr's book Divine Dance (2016) which invites readers into encountering Trinity life - God as community, friendship and dance. 

The whole dance, or pattern of this three-personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in the dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made. Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by a kind of infection. If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into the thing that has them They are not the sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone. They are a great foundation of energy and beauty spurting up at the very centre of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you; if you are not you will remain dry. Once a man is united to God how could he not live forever? Once a man is separated from God what can he do but wither and die.

What happened that first Easter is 'the very centre of reality'. Encountering the risen Jesus, with willingness to remain close, also places us in relationship with the Father and Holy Spirit that overwhelms. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into the thing that has them.  I love Easter Sunday. The Cross and Resurrection are the very centre of reality for my life, my everything.  May it be a deep joyful day for you too.