Easter 2024: Practicing Resurrection | Jake Haber

Enjoy the message from Aldea's 2024 Easter gathering, titled "Practicing Resurrection". Join us as we take a fresh look at the Easter story, focusing on the universal themes of resurrection and hope.

 

Aristides:

“They love one another. They never fail to help widows. They save orphans from those who would hurt them. If they have something, they give freely to the one who has nothing. If they see an immigrant, they take him into their homes and rejoice over him as a brother.”

 

Joseph Campbell:

“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words.” Richard Rohr: "The Resurrection is not a one-time miracle but the revelation of how reality works: that nothing truly dies.”

 

John 20:25-27

Thomas: Until I see His hands, feel the wounds of the nails, and put my hand to His side, I won’t believe what you are saying. Eight days later, they gathered again behind locked doors; and Jesus reappeared. This time Thomas was with them.Jesus: May each one of you be at peace. He drew close to Thomas. Jesus: Reach out and touch Me. See the punctures in My hands; reach out your hand, and put it to My side

 

Alan Watts:

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance"

 

Boyd Varty:

"Accept that losing the track is part of tracking. Go back to the last clear track. There is information there. Walk up ahead checking any open terrain and bare ground. Open your focus. Any place you don’t find a track is not wasted, but part of refining where to look."

 

Deepak Chopra:

"The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking."

 

John 20:19:

"Peace be with you."

 

Martin Luther King Jr.:

Easter provides answers to the deepest queries of the human spirit... Through the resurrection...we have fit testimony that this earthly life is not the end, that death is just something of a turn in the road, that life moves down a continual moving river, and that death is just a little turn in the river, that this earthly life is merely an embryonic prelude to a new awakening, that death is not a period which ends this great sentence of life but a comma that punctuates it to more loftier significance. That is what it says. That is the meaning of Easter. That is the question that Easter answers.... People are always asking, “What is the most durable power in the universe? And the fact is that Easter answers that question too. And do you know what that is? It’s the power of love. Easter tells us that. Sometimes it looks like the other powers are much more durable. Then we come to see that isn’t true. But the most durable, lasting power in this world is the power to love.