Spring is Resurrection

On this Easter weekend, I wonder—what do we long for as we walk this earth?

Several years ago, Unitas Project began with the tagline:

Be You. Be Unitas.

The idea was simple: to live from the fullness of who you are. To be you, and to live from a deep knowing that you and I—and everyone and everything on this planet—are connected. We are inextricably linked.

And so, if we are to flourish, everyone and everything must flourish.

It’s as simple—and as challenging—as that.

Because this truth asks something of us.

It calls into question how we live our daily lives:

What do we value?

Where do we spend our money?

How do we use the earth’s resources?

How do we view and treat the stranger in our midst?

Easter is a time of resurrection—a rising from the dead, a coming back to life.

We see echoes of this in the myth of the Phoenix, reborn from the ashes, embodying the ancient longing for renewal. This myth instills hope - a belief that new life is possible, even after loss.

In the Northern Hemisphere, Easter always comes in Spring.

And Spring is resurrection.

All creation begins again.

Daffodils and tulips rise from the dark soil where they had descended.

Forsythia bursts into golden flame.

A robin sings a new song.

It is as though creation itself bursts into praise—a wild, generous celebration of beginnings. A song that calls us to stop, to listen, to pay attention.

To see with our own eyes how life unfolds.

To hear with our own ears how resurrection sounds.

To remember how new life actually begins.

And, perhaps, to learn from it—

How we, too, might be reborn.

How we might flourish.

Poet David Whyte writes:

“…I want to know if you know how to melt

Into that fierce heat of living

Falling toward the centre of your longing…”

Falling toward the centre of your longing.

Maybe that’s what we’re truly after as we walk this earth.