Dedications

Did he? I don't know. Was I forced to believe with religious teachings and dogma? If he could or did rise after his death 2000 years ago, then why did ascend into heavens? Could he have not stayed back? He did say he will come back on the last day or when the world will end?

Are we so eager to have him come again that we are ending the world with war, crime and inhumanity? Questions kept rising on the risen Christ, but no answers. Going to Church was making me rise, sit and kneel with rituals. Only to realise that the Christ that I crucified and killed with my lack of faith and belief, was unable to rise in me.

Everyday of life is Christ trying to resurrect in me and I refuse to allow the tombstone to be rolled away for him to do his work through me. Instead I get ready to.go to work and have no qualms of my ritual of daily routine of a mechanical life of working, earning and praying (though praying mechanically). Praying some template of prayers, when Jesus himself taught us one beautiful 'Lord's prayers'. How come I don't have a problem of leading a dead life as a ritual, when Christ wants me to lead a resurrected life through me?

Christ is rising everyday through us in life of a new day. A life which he wants us to do his work and not just our work. His work is simple and i.e what he said, "Whatsoever you do it to you least of my brethern, you do it unto me." It is not just charity or feeding the poor, clothing the naked, it is a risen consciousness of how do I want to lead the life I am leading? Do I want to have a purpose to better the heaven on earth and not a heaven I am made to believe I will go to after I am dead.

So let this Easter not be a celebration on today's Sunday, but allowing Christ to rise every Sunday, Monday,Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The choice is ours. Allow Christ to be risen or keep him in a prison of a Church or the graves of meaningless lives.

This was a message I received from a non Christian friend today. Obviously understanding that she would have not meant it. As Good Friday is a day of mourning and remembering Christ who was crucified and killed on a Cross.

Only to realise she may have actually meant it and it is I who did not understand it.*It is a day of happiness and even rejoicing that we have a Christ who.laid down his life for us.* The pride to know we have a son of God who protects our back. Even more to celebrate as death was not the end, but a new beginning which he proved with his ressurection.

It is not that we who will leave our mortal bodies one day, will resurrect. It is about we crucifying ourselves, killing our souls and leading a life of zombies feeding on materialism, greed and power. *It is this time we need to genuflect and resurrect out of our graves of ego, arrogance and inhumanity.*

It is about crucifying our fear and having the courage to speak out against injustice, crime and war. Crucifying our inhumanity and reaching out to the ones that are crying, *I thirst.* What are we doing to these who are crying out? Feeding vinegar or actually piercing their side with a spear of ignoring and avoiding. Like the many who may have seen the passion of Christ in his time and just turned their heads away.

Good Friday is not only about a Christ who was crucified, killed and then rose again. It is about us who are dead while we are alive and not rising again. So may this Good Friday be a source of happiness and courage for us to instill in our mind, heart and soul, that we will not be crucified so easily with our insecurities and will reach out to those crucified in hunger, poverty and pain with a hope that we will help them to resurrect.

The choice is ours. Either we stay in the grave of our material comforts and luxuries  or have the courage to roll the stone that covers our graves and reach out to heal the broken world with the hope of Chirst *Let's not doubt our Christ and seek the proof like Thomas to touch his wounds to believe. Instead let's touch the wounds of misery, pain and agony of the many and give them proof of the Christ in us who cannot be crucified and killed but a risen Christ in us.*