Happy Easter, from all of us at Lawrence V. McCrobie, llc.
On behalf of our ministry, we wish you, your families, and those near and dear to you a joyful, holy, and blessed Easter.
During the Easter season, we invite you to reflect on the meaning of the Cross, via a recent article, “Christianity, when properly understood, is a religion of losers.” While a provocative and “click-bait” title, it helps us to understand what we truly lose and what we gain in the Cross of Christ, and in the Resurrection, during Easter. Three short paragraphs are below for your reflection:
“Christianity, properly understood, is a religion of losers – the worst of playground insults. For not only do we not want to be a loser, we don’t want to associate with them either. We pointedly shun losers, as if some of their loser-ness might rub off on us. Or rather, more honestly, we shun them because others might recognize us as among their number. And because we secretly fear that this might actually be true, we shun them all the more viciously, thus to distance ourselves all the more emphatically. And so the cock crows three times.
But it is true. Deep failure, the failure of our lives, is something we occasionally contemplate in the middle of the night, in those moments of terrifying honesty before we get up and dress for success. Ecce homo, said Pilate. Behold, the man. This is humanity. And the facade of success we present to the world is commonly a desperate attempt to ward off this knowledge. At the beginning of Lent, Christians are reminded of this in the most emphatic of ways: know that you are dust and to dust you shall return. Those who used the period of Lent to give things up are invited to live life stripped bare, experiencing humanity in the raw, without the familiar props to our ego.
But here’s the thing. The Christian story, like the best sort of terrifying psychoanalysis, strips you down to nothing in order for you to face yourself anew. For it turns out that losers are not despised or rejected, not ultimately. In fact, losers can discover something about themselves that winners cannot ever appreciate – that they are loved and
wanted simply because of who they are and not because of what they achieve. That despite it all, raw humanity is glorious and wonderful, entirely worthy of love. This is revealed precisely at the greatest point of dejection. The resurrection is not a conjuring trick with bones. It is a revelation that love is stronger than death, that human worth is not indexed to worldly success.”
Today we rejoice, for we who were lost are today found.
For His Mercy Endure Forever! Alleluia, Alleluia!
Lawrence†
Dr. Lawrence V. McCrobie 