One lone daffodil blooms in my yard. Bright yellow tulips will soon follow as they gloriously lift their heads in spring’s emergence. Just weeks ago the honeyed scent of almond blossoms marked its beginning. Newness is here, again.

The spring season unfolds as plants awaken to living and growing. We observe its miracle. The refrain is as familiar as it is repetitive. We’re living it too. We are born, grow, learn, and produce. Then all too soon we are looking back instead of forward.

We marvel at the miraculous. Cycles come and go – and we come and go with them. Life hails from beginnings to endings. Employment starts, then ends. We stretch to achieve, then ride the wave. We try new things, then leave them behind. We plant, grow, and harvest, in season and out.

Easter tells of a holy resurrection that happened during the season of new beginnings and fresh starts. Jesus came, lived, taught, and died. Everyone was talking about it. But the grave could not hold Him. Jesus Christ arose to life, victorious over death.

In the little things we see the big things. How fruit matures after a season of growing is like how a person overcomes and then reawakens. Everyone overcomes. This includes those difficult parts we seldom talk about. Life cycles in a form of death and then rebirth.

Jesus went from death to life that we might have life in Him, which is why we sorrow, then celebrate. His death, then life. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” If there were not life in Christ, what good would the way and truth be? Life in Christ is the essence of the resurrection.

Christ gives hope in the hard times, help in the uncertain times, and love in the dark times. We emerge stronger in our beings having gone through the valley experience.

My friend lost her home in the Camp Fire, but she has gone on to experience community in another place. God has helped her with this unwelcome, unforeseeable journey. She rebirthed physically. She is also a child of God. She is born again spiritually.

Lives are made joyous through the living Lord. Wait for the resurrection from loss to life during troublesome times. Live the resurrection life. Rejoice. Sing the Easter song.

Happy Resurrection Day!