The story of Christian resurrection really has little to do
with a body walking out of a tomb
Rather it is about a new vision of life,
a new consciousness, a new understanding of reality.

It has to do with seeing the death of Jesus as a new freedom,
no longer bound by the primeval drive to survival of the fittest,
a life free to give itself away and even to love
those who took his life from him.

Perhaps it is the freedom to forgive within the agony of a tortured death.
Jesus is not simply a figure of the past but continues to be experienced
as an abiding reality in the difficulties of our present life.

Easter is thus more than an untenable tale of an ancient miracle.
The reality and the factuality of the empty tomb is irrelevant,
as are the vast tomes of theology written around the legend.

It is about much more than surviving death,
or our own desire for there to be another existence,
where we may meet our loved ones again, if we are good,
as the biased doctrines of the church inevitably assure us.

Easter stories are parables of reality.
Death could not stop what Jesus had begun.
The main message is that of the angels at the tomb:
you will not find Jesus in the land of the dead.

He has gone. Get used to it.
Now live out his message,
Here.