Appointment with the Resurrection
Lord, it is rather uncomfortable to believe that you have really risen from death. After all, to limit myself to knowing that God exists is less compromising: it eliminates doubts, compensates for some tensions, grants a passport for the beyond. To believe in you in such fashion gives us also the right to be unhappy if you don't provide for our well-being, if you don't grant our requests.
Today, Lord I have an appointment with your resurrection. To believe you risen is to accept passing with you from death to life, from time to infinity, from selfishness to love. And I do die every day in my routine things, in my routine contacts, in my every situation. To believe you have risen is to spring out and live, free: because we are, and feel that we are, children of God, able to love with your love; because we are responding to you; because we are sharing in others and with others, with our brothers, this liberation.
Lord, to have risen is to become new in you, to experience and express the deep joy of your coming in love among us.
Anna Teresa Ciccolini
