Shared Faith

What have been your experiences of resurrection?

Matthew 28:10

Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers and sisters to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”

I feel a lot of pressure writing these reflections the week after Easter. Throughout my life, the season and celebration of Easter has taken on many different forms, from sunrise services to all night vigils, but all of them held weight and importance.

My faith has gone through many iterations where my beliefs and mindset needed to die for my faith to be resurrected, and in it, I feel sometimes as if I have gone through some deaths and resurrections along with it. But faith is not experienced alone. Jesus tells the Marys to go share the news with others, that the community will encounter the resurrection together.

In recent years, finding faith community has felt fraught and hard but also imperative. I need to share and celebrate the moments of resurrection with others. It feels like the only way to keep going.

What have been your experiences of resurrection? How have your beliefs needed to die for your faith to come alive? How might we hold and support each other as an online community?

—Theo Isoz