The cultural climate of our day is very much like a nor’easter: swirling, blustering winds, rapidly flummoxing temperatures, intense and steady amounts of precipitation. It seems as if our culture has been in one for the last five or so years.
The sharp-edged, harsh, reactionary, and biting commentary that describes public discourse and social media content on any given topic, on any given day; the staggering, gut-wrenching, exponential increase of mental and emotional health needs; the widespread breakdown of rotted-out institutions, secular and sacred, have all created deepening disillusionment, depression, and despair in the lives of so many.
Our culture is buckling under the weight of all the brokenness, and with that, hopelessness is all too familiar a companion.
This Easter season, we will settle our hearts on the hope found in the resurrection of Christ. By knowing the power of His resurrection, we can face these pressures and struggles with the hope and conviction to not lose heart.
Like a nor’easter, this too will pass. The sky will clear, the snow and ice will melt, the sun will shine. Christ has risen…and so will we.
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