As our Easter season continues, I cannot help but think of a witness testimony I heard from a gentleman who is a team member for a Catholics Coming Home evangelization effort at a local cluster of parishes. I was blessed to hear this witness story a few nights ago and it is just one more story of so many where one can see God continuing to bless this world with resurrection.
This was a young man who was expecting twins with his wife. One of the babies died at childbirth. At the age of one, the surviving twin was in a fight for life with cancer and soon lost the battle. This young man began a battle with God that lasted three intense years. He hated God and the thought of God. He remarked to me that had he seen a collar on the street, he would have let me know his displeasure with God also. His wife somehow got him into a Church one Sunday and he had an intimate encounter with Christ...so much so that he had to leave in uncontrollable tears. He repented as God asks us all to do, and is now a leader in bringing people back to God.
The Easter season is a reminder of the resurrections in our lives...they are not just for the end time but for the here and now. We can witness and experience the resurrection so many times in our lives. God is at work calling many new people everyday to new life where they were once dead. God does this saving work despite the daily reminders we see in the media about the sin of the clergy and hierarchy. Jesus always said we would face persecution and negativity...even from those close to us who do not share a need for God. Through this all, we continue to seek new life for ourselves and others in this season of the resurrection.
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