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.

# posted by Sunny Fernandes @ 7:01 PM