REFELCTIONS FROM
PASTOR DAVE PERSONS
Dear Friends of FPCWS,
Lent is quickly passing and Easter is arriving! I trust your prayers and meditations of the past weeks have been rewarded with Divine Peace.
Easter is awakening. Just as dormant grass, buds, leaves, and hibernating life re-awakens, so is the symbol of Easter. Resurrection means “awakening,” from the word anastasyn.
As shared earlier, I have grown to understand the Easter story as similar to other ancient traditions beginning in early Egypt thousands of years ago. In ancient wisdom, spiritual truths were taught through story, mythology and metaphor. The virgin birth at the winter solstice symbolized coming to earth in bodily form, into the darkness of mortality. Easter, coming at the spring equinox, was the time when life and darkness became equal, forming a perfect cross. The cross symbolized our horizontal, earth bound lives intersecting with the vertical divine awakening. The story remains rich in meanings and reminders of the inward Divine Presence, yet often so difficult and frightening to our ego, body identifications.
May this be our Easter experience and throughout our few years of sojourn on earth. Yes, we are growing old in mortality, yet we can be daily enriched in freedom and love through Spirit. Let us daily awaken by being still and knowing, and living lives of compassion and kindness toward all! In Christ, in being the Christ Self, You are indestructible. Hallelujah!