What’s So Different About Monday? Lent is over and Easter Sunday has come and gone. We are now in the season of Easter where we celebrate the fact that Jesus is Resurrected; that Jesus is Alive; and that through Jesus we can experience the Radical Presence of God in Our lives; in a way that makes a profound difference in our lives. So how will this time be different? We’ve all been here before; excited and inspired and renewed to live Holier lives - more in tune with the will of God. We fallen on our knees in the confessional; some of us have weeped - and we have promised that this time will be different, we will no longer be slaves to a particular sin. We have told ourselves that all the money in the world doesn’t make us happy; that we need to spend more time with our family. But so often, when February of the next year rolls around, and Lent begins again, we find ourselves in familiar Spiritual Territory. Jesus wants us to take up our cross and Follow Him. Key to that is the act of doing His Will; and not ours. All of us need to remember the great lie of the Serpent in the Garden. He convinced Adam and Eve that God was holding something back from them; that God had not given them all that they need to be happy; that there was something in the forbidden fruit that would make them more like God and that God did not want that. What Jesus shows us is so different. From our beginning, God wanted us to be very much like him. He gave us the power to love; the power to create new life, eternal life; and then God became one of us. God is most pleased when us humans are acting Like God. What Easter and the Cross should remind us of daily, is that God not only wants us to be Like Him. God wants us to really trust that He has Given Us Everything. And that he has Given us Everything that we need to be happy. So over the next year; be vigilant in asking yourself “What do I really need to be Happy?”. Too often we get off the right path by taking what we “think” we need instead of trusting in what God has already given to us. As Jesus said at the beginning of his ministry “The Kingdom of God is at Hand (God is close); Repent and Believe in the Good News!”
