Bonnie's Faith Jam: What Easter Means To Me This Year

OK, it's Wednesday. I'm new to this Faith Jam thing but I do know that I link to it on a Thursday. And today is Wednesday. But I can't wait.

Over at facebook I reposted this classic paragraph: Greatest man in history, named Jesus... He had no servants, yet they called Him Master. Had no degree, yet they called Him Teacher. Had no medicines, yet they called Him Healer. He had no army, yet kings feared Him. He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world. He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him... He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today. And I've been reading Philip Yancy's book What Good is God?  And what has struck me most is that Jesus came and spent time with the marginalised. The outcasts, the sick, the disabled, the poor, the immoral...and that, in contrast, I spend my Christian time with the comfortable, the accepted, the wealthy, the healthy...easy to do when one lives in the Western world.

Now, nothing wrong in having soul-restoring times of sweet friendship with devoted followers of Jesus who are comfortable, accepted, wealthy, healthy...but my focus has to be to the folk Jesus hung around with.

So my prayer this Easter is to recognise and relate to the sick, the hungry, the prisoners - all those afflicted not just physically, but spiritually. To hang around with them. Because when I do that, I'm with Jesus. Really with him.