Many people are facing this Easter with a great sense of fear and trepidation for the future. The recent dissident murders have created a degree of nervousness about the safety of members of the PSNI. And, with all the recent layoffs in manufacturing, there is also the devastation of unemployment for people in jobs which had seemed secure.
For all of us who experience traumatic circumstances in our lives, it can feel like the long Good Friday ”“ that nothing will ever be right again, that we will never laugh heartily again and that there is no possible future we can imagine.
The Easter story is a reminder that that is not so. There is always hope when God is involved and always new life to be experienced in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The message of Easter morning is this: Christ is risen! Life is worth living! God has the future in his hands both in this life and in eternity.
–The Rt. Rev. Harold Miller