Dear Friend,
Spring and Easter, renewal and resurrection. This season always brings to thought those two key points of Christianity. New growth budding on bare branches reminds us that our opportunities to bless those around us are never truly gone, even if they seem hidden for a time. And Easter celebrations remind us to be grateful to the man who gave us Christianity, Christ Jesus.
Jesus’ sacrifice made him our Way-shower. But his example does not merely point us heavenward and wave a cheerful “fare well.” It accompanies us the entire way. It makes strong demands on us that we, too, be willing to sacrifice anything standing in the way of our spiritual progress. It expects that we will love our neighbor even if that love is not returned. It insists that we bring every single thought and action into subjection to the divine law.
