Revelation!!  I Love This Word!

~ To reveal.  To unveil. To see, To know, To experience for the first time.

Isn’t there such excitement in this?!  Such hope in this?!  Such exploration in this?! 

It’s now, during this Easter Season, that we get to experience Jesus’ Big Reveal over and over again in so many different ways!  We ran with Mary Magdalene to tell the disciples that she had seen the Lord!  Our hearts burned as we walked along the Road to Emmaus with the surprise joy of knowing that it was HIM! On the shore of the Sea of Tiberias, can you even believe that Jesus had breakfast ready for us?!  And we touched and explored His very wounds with Thomas in the Upper Room!  

Have you ever found yourself in the presence of His Revelation?  Have you ever found your heart burning?  Do you know that Jesus does not stop revealing himself? He just keeps Revealing! To us. Today.

Maybe He’s revealed himself to you in the birth of a child you were not expecting, or through the pain of infertility.  Maybe you’ve seen Him through the loss of a job, or death of a friend.  Maybe His face illuminated through a reconciliation with family after many years of pain and separation.  Maybe you’ve witnessed Him in the diagnosis of disease or the celebration of healing. 

I’ve not always recognized Jesus at first.  Sometimes I still don’t.  Sometimes I miss him altogether.  What I do know, is that He is with us.  Always.  He tells us so.  My job is to remember to invite Him into those sacred places of my heart – inside those emotions and thoughts of pain, loss, longing, anger, joy, gratitude …  and ask Him to be there with me. That’s it.  He will.  And He does.  

Revelation.  I really can’t wait to see what awaits me around the next corner.  What beauty will enrapture me.  What new thought will captivate me.  What new truth will awaken me.  What realization of greatness I will feel within me … because of Him!  

Jesus himself tells us today in the gospel that He gives us eternal life and that we will never perish. Thank God He and the Father are one.  

Throughout the year, we present an article in the bulletin each week on a variety of topics, written by a member of our Parish staff or ministries on a rotating basis.