Chasing resurrection.

A reflection on being present to our lives.

Apr 05, 2026

It happens when I least expect it, even though I am always looking for that moment when I know I am alive and awake.

Today, it happened during my prayer walk. As I turned the corner onto the park, the way the trees swayed to the gentle spring breeze, my senses heightened with the lush greenery that has suddenly sprouted with the season’s rain. There, I felt it, my life, my place, my breath, the universe, all beating in tandem. I whisper under my breath, “Here it is, the moment.”

No one else up ‘til now knew about my practice of noticing the moment of aliveness, but one person — the one I love.

But today, as I stared at the white screen, the ticking cursor prompting me, I knew I wanted to share this with you as well, my dear reader.

Oftentimes, we humans overcomplicate spiritual practices. And some won’t even mention that they exist, for fear of sounding, in fact, overly spiritual. But simply told, a spiritual practice can be anything that moves us closer to God’s loving presence.

I used to be the kind of person who believed that experiencing the presence of God had to be nothing short of an epic encounter with bolts of lightning and supernatural activity all around. But these are the days when I know better.

I know that to experience God, first, I must know that God is in everything, from the smallest to the greatest aspects of my existence. All I must do is look for Him everywhere and in every moment. Walking so close to Him as to feel the dust his feet kick up every step he takes. I am chasing after him.

Richard Foster writes in his book Prayer:

“The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find him at all. Ours is to be a symphonic piety in which all activities of work and play and family and worship and sex and sleep are the holy habitats of the eternal.”

Jesus’ invitation to come and see1 is one of daily renewal; it’s a commitment to walk this faith journey through every season, in every circumstance, without discounting the smallness in which He also inhabits.

The resurrection at the tomb was not different from this morning, when I woke up under the weight of my covers. The only sound was the soft chirping of the birds nestled outside my bedroom window. In the stillness on this day of remembrance, as it was thousands of years ago, Jesus, no longer dead, has gone ahead to another place and has called me to follow him into the next.2

And I ask myself the big question, will I chase after him, the one who loves my soul?3

Because isn’t that what love is? The pursuit of the other? The cultivation of the bond in every season?

Resurrection is the ultimate evolution of love that leads us to accept the human we are to become.

A human being who feels deeply, cries easily, marvels at sunrise, and sighs at sunset. The one who gives, believes again that love is possible, and recognizes Love as the only unstoppable force.

The power of God in Jesus’ death and resurrection is offered to us today. The gift of resurrection is the promise that life isn’t ever stagnant. That we, through every death, can come back to life anew and more embodied through our faith in the God who has and is the last Word.

I find myself this Resurrection Sunday with a bit more clarity than I have had in a while. I stand by the decisions I have made over the last 8 months of my life as firmly as ever. Fully awake and aware that this journey called my life is now taking some turns that I never saw coming. Turns that scare me and beg me to accept that only God could uproot my life in the way that He is doing.

The resurrected life is anything but same. It is dynamic and ever-changing. It’s more than a pretty outfit, easter eggs and fancy brunches.

It is the unexpected moments that softly whisper, “I am here and so are you, do you perceive the new I am doing?”4

What about you dear reader, how is resurrection embodied in your own life these days?

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Stay grounded and human. I am cheering you on, friend.

For now, let’s pray.

To you, oh everlasting God,

The One and only King Jesus Christ our savior,

By your Holy Spirit,

Raise us to life again.

Resurrect our hearts.

Restore and redeem our broken lives,

Again, and again.

We believe,

Christ died.

Christ rose from the dead.

Christ will come again.

It is in You that we live and breathe and have our being.

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Until next time,

Love God, love you, love others.

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