Seize the chance to change the world and shape the future

Why? Easter has been and gone, not a chocolate egg in sight!

I have told my children that being in lockdown in Glasgow is no excuse. I have told my wife that being in isolation as a vulnerable person is no excuse! I have never known such a scandal in all my life! Where is the commitment and the passion in these people?

Apparently, one of us is being a little self-consumed, perhaps, even selfish!

Of course, this is not news to any dad with teenage children.

More seriously, we have just come from Holy Week. The most special time in the Christian year. In it we remember and reflect upon a week that changed the ancient world, and indeed, shaped the future. We follow the Passion of Jesus, the commitment he showed to the will of God his Father. That will of course was, and is, plain and simple.

To reach out to all of his children, that is all of us, and show us his very real and deep love for us and draw us back to a more sensible, honest and equal way of living. What Father wouldn’t want that for his children?

In the world today, like that world then, God had been ignored and put on a shelf, almost out of reach, just there for times when we might need him, usually because we want something or need someone to blame for something happening in our life.

We have a chance to change things and shape the future. We are seeing terrible things all around us. People ignoring the instructions that will help us all, especially the vulnerable, and, those poor people working and risking their selves and their families. We see people wishing ill of our Prime Minister, even that he would die.

Likewise, all around us, we see love, unity, passion and commitment. We can do it, we have the opportunity to change the world and shape the future.

Did you know that the real and only message of Easter is love? The love of God for all people. It is not about bunnies and chocolate eggs, although I am still upset I didn’t get any.

The tomb is empty, because Jesus arose from it and is alive. The tomb is empty because God’s heart is not! It is full of his wonderful love for each and every one of us, his children!