A Message From Rev. Ben Moore

Holy Week, the time from Palm Sunday through Easter, has little bit of everything, and in each moment there is something we can relate to in our own lives. The joy, excitement and hope of the triumphal entry, the extraordinarily ordinary dinner we celebrate as the last supper, the uncertainty and fear as things go awry with Jesus’ arrest, and the destruction of hopes, dreams, and plans that comes with Good Friday. In our personal lives, and in the life of Unity, there has been little bit of all of that for us over the last several months. In our remembrance of these celebrations we have an opportunity to honor what we have been going through while being reminded that God is with us through it all.

Oftentimes we see Easter as the capstone of Holy Week, the day when all is made right and well. But Easter is more than just a day, both within the liturgical calendar where it is the longest of the special seasons, and in our lives where we are challenged to live into the reality of the resurrection. The season of Easter lasts seven weeks, nearly 50 days, as a reminder that after the resurrection Jesus continued to appear to his disciples for weeks before his eventual ascension.

Our challenge as Easter people is to look for Jesus’ appearing in our own ordinary lives, to remember the resurrection continues to work in this world. Like the disciples we can be guilty of just going about our lives as though Jesus hasn’t been raised. Maybe this year during the Easter Season, which will go from April 5th- May23rd, we can look for signs of Jesus’ resurrection work in our lives and in our world.

I would love to hear from you stories of where you see Jesus and his resurrecting work in your own life, to share those stories with each other so that we can remind each other that Jesus is still at work in the world around us. And as we see the work that Jesus is doing we can learn to join in that work and help bring new life into the world around us.

Thankful to be celebrating this Easter Season with you!

Pastor Ben