What2Say2Day? You know, it really is difficult getting myself together after the week I just had. It wasn't a week filled with stress; quite the opposite actually. I would say it was a week filled with emotional highs and lows. The closer I got to Easter, the more the excitement grew.
Of course I had to get through Maundy Thursday and the reminder that the shadow was approaching, slowly creeping its way into the heart of Judas and the lives of Jesus and those who loved him. Then on Friday I participated in a 1-mile walk through one of the busiest parts of Honolulu, gaining an understanding of what Jesus may have gone through in his own walk.
Saturday brought the Easter Vigil, which was actually way too much fun as our Vigil is actually a Youth sleepover in disguise. To end our Vigil, though, I spoke on what the Vigil meant to me and how it represents the darkest hours in our life. A place where we have no hope, no friends, nothing except that which is our worst fears coming to realization.
It was in that talk I spoke of the women who waited all night, watching and waiting for the first light and refusing to let hope die. It was there, in the lighting of the Vigil candle I saw Christ at work in the room. Yes, hope can sometimes seem bleak if not gone, but somewhere someone holds hope for us, keeping its flame lit.
That person is God. God never leaves us, never stops being the light in our darkness. The light may seem so far away we can't see it, but it is there. We just have to remember to not stop believing, just as the women never stopped.
Jesus died to remind us that hope lives. Jesus was risen to show us how hope lives on.
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