Art that informs us to search & hope. Music that pulls us towards the promise of Christ. These are some of the pieces that spurred our community into a contemplative Easter celebration.
When Jesus rose from the grave on the first Easter, resurrection wasn’t hard to see. And when Jesus returns one day, resurrection won’t be hard to see; it will be all we see.
Most Easter art takes us for an inspiring ride either into resurrection’s past or its future – which is vitally important.
But the art we have this year does the wonderful and perhaps uncomfortable thing of leaving us right where we are: in a place where resurrection can be hard to spot.
At the same time, though, these images can remind us not to be fooled by the darkness around us – and not to be lulled into a Technicolor hope: the resurrection work God started in Jesus doesn’t leap over us and start again at the second coming. It is continuing in you and me and in people all over the world right now, not despite darkness and hypocrisy, but through them.
Eternal life is sprouting up through the cracks of our weakness, and from the compost of our selfishness. The great Gardner is inside us and among us, already inventing the ceaseless greens and countless colors of His new creation.
Easter, viewed through this art, is something like an alarm-clock reminding all of us kids to wake up, to get up, and to get out into the garden – because even though its barely dawn and it’s still pretty cold, God—three-in-one–is already out there, in joy and beauty, making all things new.
Your Life is Mine
(Hannah Glavor’s Easter Song)
where once he lay
light of life by darkness slain
bright bursting forth
sing hallelujah, glorious day
you did change the world in a single day
and you bound up my heart
forevermore I’m yours
light shines brightest after the dark you took my
place and I am born anew your light brings life
your life is mine
though darkness hides
my efforts cannot move my stains
deep shadows bright
turned my darkness into light
heaven’s first light
shines upon my broken heart
lift up my eyes
free and crowned in radiance bright
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May 5th, 2010at 12:53 pm(#)
So, I stumbled across this as I was looking on your guys website, and really fell in love with this song. Is there any way I can get it on iTunes? By the way, this is someone from Nebraska and I am not in Portland.