Pastor's May Message

Every Day is Resurrection! 

Easter was a big day at Agricola. There’s nothing like a full church!

Every year, one member of Agricola makes the same comment to me on Easter, “I wish all of these people would come to church every Sunday.”

Not every Sunday can be Easter, but every day we can live as people of the resurrection and
resurrection can happen every day:

1. When we wake up in the morning and realize we have been gifted with another day of life.

2. When we feel the sun shining on a beautiful clear, spring day when the sky is brilliant blue.

3. When we choose in a hurried moment to pause and hold the door for the person coming behind us, offer a hand to an elderly person trying to cross the street, pick up the edge of a stroller to carry it up two flights of subway stairs for a struggling mom.

4. When we take the extra time to go up to that person in church we know is struggling with health concerns, or the loss of a loved one, and ask, “How are you? No, really, how are you?” And then listen.

Many of these are examples of small resurrections. But they are examples, nonetheless, of hope and life. It’s the small resurrections of our lives that can so often go unnoticed. It’s the small moments of kindness and love that can quickly float out of our minds. Every day can be Easter if we look for the small resurrections that constantly occur. We just have to pause long enough to see them.

We live resurrection every day, as resurrection people. This means every day is Easter for us.

See you in church,

Pastor Tuula