Article October 23, 1989 Issue

Rising and reforming

How should we view the Master's victory over death and the tomb? What does it tell us about what we should be doing in our own lives?

Clifford Kapps Eriksen

As a youngster en route to Sunday School one Easter morning, I was deeply impressed when a stranger joyously declared to me, "Hallelujah! The Lord is risen!" The quality of triumphant reassurance so evident in this woman's greeting has come to mind many times since. And I've seen even more of the spiritual meaning of Easter as I've studied a particular passage in Science and Health, the Christian Science textbook, about the impact of the resurrection on Christ Jesus' disciples. Mrs. Eddy writes: "His resurrection was also their resurrection. It helped them to raise themselves and others from spiritual dulness and blind belief in God into the perception of infinite possibilities." Science and Health, p. 34.

Here is a view of the resurrection that transcends mystery and miracle. It implies that we today may also discover "infinite possibilities" through raising ourselves and others "from spiritual dulness and blind belief in God." When we do, Easter becomes something we practice—not merely know or read about.

Resurrection means infinitely more than a one-time conquering of death. For us today it involves daily moral reformation— a rising mentally above a material perspective into the spiritual understanding of Life, God. Every difficulty we face, therefore, every illness we encounter, has the potential to be a resurrection experience.

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