In all my years, I had never heard of BRIGHT WEEK. This is the period of the week after Easter and is a time of celebration, of joy, it is setting our focus upon the “Now, what….” Of Easter and living this amazing news. I look at it as kind of a training camp to get conditioned and on the proverbial same page of being a resurrection people to continue the work of the Risen Christ.
BRIGHT WEEK is living the lyrics of that, for many, first and greatest hit of Sunday school songs….”This Little Light of Mine.” Yes, it is shining one’s light and shining the light all over and to keep shining brighter and brighter, even in the face of any threat or attempt to snuff out. BRIGHT WEEK is brilliant….literally and metaphorically! I’m envisioning handing out candles as persons leave Easter Sunday worship as a re-minder to continue the story and light the darkness.
Why had I not known about this previously??? Learning it know, I share the light which is standard fare in living this Jesus way.
You know how you can know in your head a fact, something that you could recall if on JEOPARDY and the category is Christianity. Now, I know that the Risen Christ stayed around for 40 days (gotta love those Biblical numbers) post Resurrection, appearing, cheering and steering the disciples in what they/we were to continue to build. Easter is major…the biggie in the Christian faith and, I confess to having had and still having a “Whew….got through that and now I’m going on vacation” mindset.
The Resurrection is not the end point it is the starting point. So, how am I to live differently post Resurrection? Has anything changed? How will this be evidenced in my life?
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