Friday, April 2, 2010

Easter Message

Rev. Bill Federici,nephew, sent Laura and me this message that we share with you. Have a great weekend what ever you do and what ever your spiritual persuasion is.





Dear Friends:

Eastertide is about meeting, and witnessing the shocking core of our beliefs and our practices as Christians:

God is Love.
Love is God.

In the midst of the world’s pain, we dare assert that fact. Rather than ignoring the pain of the world, our message meets that pain with the promise and possibility of healing and transformation.

Easter, then, becomes a year round fact and a year round choice. In fact, I believe that Easter is a moment by moment fact, and a moment by moment choice.

Easter is the choice for Love.

Eastertide is an opportunity to intensely remember and practice this choice for
love over hate,
courage over fear,
life over death.
We can choose the excellent over the medicore, the strange over the familiar, the uncomfortable over the comfortable, the uncomon over the common.
Our lives are moment by moment choice for Love, or for Love’s opposite. How thrilling to know that in each of our breaths we can choose to make tangible the Love of God by “choosing it down to earth.”

May this season be rich with blessings and joys for you and yours.

All Love, great and small, Rev. Bill