Easter - The Resurrection as a Creative Act
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"The Easter story addresses the threat of death. Death is destroyed. Nothing more to fear there. The threats against our creativity are neutralized by the resurrection event. Now we can get on with being who we are, co-creators, sons and daughters of the Divine Creator. And here lies redemption.
Paradise means "garden." Being driven from the garden, as Adam and Eve were, is being banished from paradise or heaven, a heaven here on earth. (Jesus teaches people to pray that things might occur on earth as they do in heaven.) Good Friday began in the garden of Gethsemane where betrayal occured and where soldiers came to capture Jesus. The Easter story is about recovering paradise, finding the fullness of delight and Sabbath, resurrecting from death and the fear of death. Easter happens in a garden, and in one version the risen Christ is encountered as a gardner. The Song of Songs, like the Easter stories so full of garden imagery, redeems the lost Garden of Eden as well. Death is the ultimate in non-communication (remember that "hell" means "concealment"). Death is the ultimate in no creativity. For all creativity is communication; it is the utmost of communication, the telling of our story, our hearts, our truth, our inner wisdom, our search for beauty, and our telling of pain.
Easter is about paradise restored-communication and creativity come alive. The Easter story is about the triumph of creativity."
Matthew Fox - Creativity
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