Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. — Albert Schweitzer
The color purple reminds me of Holy Week. And a flurry of chewy yellows, soft purples, tiny red and green pearls, swimming in a stew of creamy beige coconut milk. We always had that sweet Visayan fruit stew during this time of the year.
And on that given Sunday, flashes of bright pinks, oranges, yellows, and like the multicolored coat of Joseph the Dreamer washed the white orbs–Easter Eggs we called it.
But that was it. That was all the week meant for a child.
There was no real SUN-day. No light seeped in to the weary. No fresh air for the dying. It was still dark as night. The soul was an orphan still.
After the Holy Week, it was back to business as usual. Like nothing happened at all.
What does this week really mean? What does this Sunday and any other “Sunday” mean?
A pause is a breath. Man cannot push air out of his vocal chords and inhale at the same time. A pause must occur…To cease talking in order to seize that adequate amount of life-infusing oxygen.
Cease to seize.
What are we so busy over? Cease.
What is our life pursuit? Cease.
A breath infuses life. A pause causes us to remember why we have been bone weary at work and in life all this time. Forgetting to breathe means choosing to die.
What have we been striving to achieve? Have we felt like we’ve been running the marathon in an oval?
A pause gives us time to look at what essential things we have given up for the present urgencies of life.
If the Man on the Calvary cross came to give life in its fullest, then why are we still empty?
The soul is an orphan because it has become oblivious to the word RISEN.
As Timothy Keller said, If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
What does this word really mean for me?
Cease. And think about it.
