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Easter.
This day means something different to me than it used to.
Growing up I went to church (even played guitar in the worship band) and loved Easter services
Loved the energy.
The music.
The community.
Something about it felt so right.
But there were also parts of it that felt so wrong.
And my pastor at the time had some really bad answers to my questions.
So I left my church and spent most of my 20s searching and studying.
The Dao Te Ching.
The Bhagavad Gita.
The Quran.
Plant medicine
Breathwork
Personal development
Anything I could get my hands on to help me understand myself, life and death.
All beautiful. All containing truth. All ultimately bringing me closer to God and understanding myself.
But there has been one text that has had the most profound impact on me...
It's called A Course in Miracles and I've Been studying it for 20 years now alongside the Bible.
And there are certain distinctions in ACIM about Jesus and the bible that just make sense to me.
For example.
Most of Easter focuses on the crucifixion ...
how Jesus suffering, sacrificing and ultimately dying on the cross for our sins
is why and how we are saved.
ACIM says it's the resurrection that illuminates WHY we are saved.
An emphasis on the resurrection over the crucifixion.
This distinction might seem small
Or obvious because without the resurrection the whole Jesus story falls apart
But to me...
One says death saved me.
The other says death isn't real.
One interpretation keeps me in fear.
The other is the foundation of my inner peace.
The very first line of A Course in Miracles says:
"Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."
I don't know which one is "right"
I'm not a theologian.
I only know which one brings me closer to feeling Gods presence in my life
And what I've come to believe...
for me anyways...
is that Jesus wasn't the exception.
He was the model.
The guide.
The one.
The demonstration of what's possible when we fully surrender to God.
And that living a life filled with the Holy Spirit isn't something that happened to one man 2,000 years ago.
but rather it was an example of what's available to all of us.
Right now.
The power to surrender and
choose love over fear.
Faith over doubt
Forgiveness over judgement.
That's the gift, Im sitting with today.
I'm grateful for this Easter day.
Grateful for the teacher.
Grateful for a God that is all-loving and endlessly patient with
a dude who needed 20 years of searching to find what was always there.
Happy Easter to you and your family.
With love and gratitude,
Dan
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